This tool changes the logical ID, not the factory physical ID.
Leo stared at the prompt: Enter New Serial Number: His finger hovered over the Enter key. On his desk sat a stack of legacy servers he’d scavenged from a liquidated data center. They were powerful, but they were locked. The proprietary database software they ran was keyed to the hardware IDs of disks that had been crushed for security.
The program gave a silent, instantaneous confirmation. No progress bar. No fanfare. "Reboot required to apply changes." The Result