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		swagmoney1606 on March 9, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How secure is merely discarding (TRIMing) all of a... How hard would it be to write custom firmware for an M.2 SSD? I'm not even sure where to start

avianlyric on March 9, 2023 [–]

A good one? Extremely hard. Pretty sure 90% of and SSD firmware is just secret sauce magic to deal with the mess and noise the physical world creates when you try to cram so much entropy into such a tiny physical space.

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