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What I ended up doing is setting up a VM with DBAN and assigning the drives I wanted to wipe to the VM.
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For instance, if the disk above has size 1 terabyte and offers 100 MB/s write. Depending on the disk size and normal performance for bulk I/O (can be measured with hdparm -tT /dev/sdX, one may even infer how many times the data is purportedly overwritten. To anyone looking to do multiple drives that happens to read this: as I said, I tried several programs, and none of them will do it except one, which you have to buy. The 'secure erase' and 'enhanced secure erase' for that disk are probably identical. To the devs, in case you read this: don't use a forum for support then not let people post in it (shouldn't need to be said, but there it is). I signed up on the forum to inquire about it, but then couldn't post, so that was a massive waste of time. If you just want to erase your ssd, use the disk utility.
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Also check the firmware update on the ssd. There is a file system repair option that might fix some internal issue. I see no good reason why that shouldn't be possible, and searching the forums it seemed the dev intended to add it in v6, but that was years ago and it's now on v6.2. You can connect your ssd to a Linux system and run disk utility. being able to wipe multiple drives simultaneously.
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The only thing I don't like about it is the lack of parallelization, i.e. The free partition manager - EaseUS Partition Master, can also serve the function of an SSD erasing tool to securely erase an SSD or HDD for you. Of them, one or two would probably be suitable replacements for this one if it were to stop working, but I would say Eraser is probably the best interface and it's free, portable, and can do files, free space, and entire drives. I tried several others, and they ranged from horrible to ok. As some others have mentioned (complained about), it does take a long time, but that's just the nature of what it's doing, and all programs are going to be slow if they're not, they're not doing a good job. It did randomly quit the other day in the middle of a job, which I luckily checked on it and noticed, though I'm not sure if that was Eraser's or Windows' fault. Decent program that does the job with minimal fuss.