First of all is formatting it with the right file system: EXT4, ZFS or NTFS (especially no FAT, exFAT or BTRFS).
Second: database not on your data drive, but on your system drive. So the many IOPS of the database don’t compete with your data.
The remainder is only of little value, like:
Furthermore, it’s acceptance. As long as your node is growing some GB’s a day on average, I wouldn’t bother. Even my worst node on SMR was growing 5GB a day on average. The biggest concern is and was the fact there was a big difference between disk use and use according to Storj-network, probably reflecting the slow filewalker process.