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Comment by mschuster91

6 years ago

What baffles me is that there seems to be no way for either the customer or a data-recovery company to flash a new firmware onto the drive after it has failed. Someone there wanted to spare the few millicents of copper trace for a JTAG port?!

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marcinzm  6 years ago

Probably to prevent supply chain firmware changes for hacking, espionage, etc.

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