All good advice this time. Next time crypto the drive. Remember you can’t wipe a dead drive so if you’re super paranoid crypto it before hand then you don’t care.

Right tool for the right job.

If you want to write lots of files and lots of GBs regularly then go for Enterprise drives. Micron 7450 Pro or Max are a good price for decent performance that will happily wipe the floor in almost every metric that matters against consumer grade parts.