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by mschuster91 2351 days 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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Probably to prevent supply chain firmware changes for hacking, espionage, etc.