Of course, if the drive uses internal full disk encryption, all you have to do to fully destroy the data (or at least make it inaccessible for a long, long time

Of course, if the drive uses internal full disk encryption, all you have to do to fully destroy the data (or at least make it inaccessible for a long, long time) is get rid of 16 bytes of AES key. I doubt there is no way to securely implement this without dramatic explosions...