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A special feature known as SSD secure erase. The easiest OS-independent way is probably via CMOS setup β modern BIOSes can send secure erase to NVM Express SSDs and possibly SATA SSDs.
Did this already, it took 1 second for a 2TB drive. Would you trust that?
Thanks for this informative answer. Then it would make sense that it took only 1 second, then again, I have a modern Asus motherboard (AM5) with a Western Digital NVMe drive, and that drive isn't listed as Secure Erase compatible on Asus motherboard. I will download the WD dashboard and do it that way, I didn't know it existed before I posted this question.