If you check research related to this and the DEFCON talk where somebody actually put thermite into the drive, there won't be a puddle of molten metal.
You can put thermite on it once you burned the parts if you want.
The DEFCON guy used 15 grams of thermite. An AN-M14 TH3 incendiary grenade contains ~750 grams of thermite (technically thermate). Those are two different things. Entirely.
