You won't find an option to securely erase drives with macOS anymore. But if you use these drives correctly, you don't need it.
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O.K. So I have a spinning HD for Time Machine non encrypted. How do I securely erase it?
Charles: I explain in the video (erase, reformat as encrypted, fill it up with stuff if you want to go the extra mile, erase again, recycle).