Keep it spinning and put stuff on it, or sell it, probably for more than you paid for it. Drives on the shelf tend to fail.
10K POH is a little more than a year, so it may still be under warranty.
“Anxious to use it” in colloquial English means that you are impatient or in a hurry to use it, btw. The opposite of being afraid to use it, which might be what you intended to say.