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The usual advice is that you can’t so you have to destroy the drives. People like that because it’s a funny answer and it makes them feel good to care more about information than a physical object.
The unusual advice is that you can’t, so just call the drives secure delete command and don’t worry about it. People don’t like that because it’s at the right hand side of the bell curve meme and they’re not monks.
The complex advice is that it really depends on what you want to erase, why, and to what extent you’re expecting someone to invest in recovering it.
The simple advice is to just pay for the drive and keep it.