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Closed source firmware on drives contain bugs that corrupt data. Are there any drives, available anywhere, that have open source firmware?
by danjoc 10y ago
Closed source firmware on drives contain bugs that corrupt data. Are there any drives, available anywhere, that have open source firmware?
- weitzj 10y agoI guess this is what ZFS is for. Don't trust the underlying storage. But I am interested as well about your question.
- qb45 10y agoBuggy SSDs certainly are a thing, mainly due to the complexity of FTL, but if you have a story of FW corrupting data on spinning rust that would be news to me.
- dandelion_lover 10y agoThere is a corresponding project: http://www.openssd-project.org http://www.openssd-project.org
- duskwuff 10y agoNote that it's essentially a dead project. The "NEW!!!" platform mentioned on their homepage is from 2014.