One annoying thing is that Samsung NVMe drives do not support the things that would allow Microsoft Bitlocker to use the drive's hardware encryption and just ma

One annoying thing is that Samsung NVMe drives do not support the things that would allow Microsoft Bitlocker to use the drive's hardware encryption and just manage the keys. It's quite surprising if WD does not have the build-in encryption(). Typically the secure erase on the drives is using this. For example on Samsung the data is always encrypted and doing a secure erase means just generating new encryption key and removing the old one. On SSD this is pretty crucial, because you can't wipe the contents by just writing random stuff on drive. The drive is managing the writes (wear leveling algorithms) and might not actually overwrite existing data. () Of course it is be possible that they have this internally, but just don't expose the password part to user. Could not see anything on the specs on quick search.