Comments on: Remember to upgrade your SSD firmware!

By: neozeed

neozeed — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 11:50:08 +0000

In reply to Mr. Argent. I even upgraded my spinning disk. Although it ended up having bad sectors, and the warranty JUST ran out. Kind of funny how the bad sectors didn't report through until the firmware update, but there you go.

By: Mr. Argent

Mr. Argent — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 05:45:54 +0000

In reply to ender. The world of microcontrollers and embedded systems sure is a hoot.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Sun, 16 Dec 2018 13:50:30 +0000

In reply to ender. Yeah it's scary. It's also part of the Snowden leaks where they put the virus onto the hard disk, so that way it'll load in either different kernels, or slipstream drivers into the load. Nothing can be trusted anymore.

By: ender

ender — Sun, 16 Dec 2018 12:16:11 +0000

Don’t worry, the SSD isn’t the only computer inside your computer. Spinning rust hard drives also have their own firmware, and somebody even managed to install Linux on one: http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack

And don’t forget that all recent Intel CPUs run Minix on them (on a separate embedded P5-class CPU; older ones used ARC instead), and can even have a webserver running, exposed by piggybacking on the on-board network card.