So this firmware which reduces the 320gb of chips down to 200gb (aka massive sparing. someone else recently sold CHEAP 30GB drives which had 60gb of nand) - i wonder if its possible to jam the firmware from the 710 onto another product to extend the life.
2nd time i've posted this: we hack bios to overclock better, phones kernels, gpu's.
why not storage? If you can decrypt the firmware (arm/mips/etc) and alter parameters that improve performance and longevity/power consumption/logging of data not present to mere consumers.
Now the question is who can get their hands on any firmware - and who can decrypt it - ie use a debugger to wait for it to decrypt into ram and booya - or other mad skills - for educational purposes only. I suspect they decrypt on the drive given the feature of AES-128 but that doesn't stop bootloader hackers from putting gingerbread on something that would never get it naturally.
It would be cool to understand better how a drive works - even if its reference driver material from an out of business ssd maker - and to that point we'd start to understand how to make our own.
Back in the days - N770 was the small device to have - hackable - very weaksauce - the nand on the main board was RAW like xD (olympus) - no brains - software bugs in the o/s could burn out nand - If you remember back even further to a Satellite company - who used this ECM to get their naughty customers by contiuosly looping writes to a boot block entry point - rendering a demand for boot-loaders that patched over this. Glitching etc.
So that N770 had to use modern file systems like Compressed Journalled filesystem written to work with nand that had no brains - in theory if it was coded for specific nand - it would be the open-source of a flash drive technology since it used compression/encryption to wear level. No idea where that filesystem went - it's probably redundant nowadays given trans-flash.
So is it cool to talk about hacking SSD roms? Like patching GPU's to perform better, Undervolting laptops to run cooler/longer, Patching phones to do more - better - faster? Does anyone else have a desire to explore this? Hardware hackers that maybe want to roll their own REVODRIVE and use software or arduino-like controller hardware using common parts? Hack that sandforce ssd that you got for $89 that nobody seems to care about fixing the random hiccups (sleep/panics) in all cases? Make a race-car by removing artificial caps put into place to limit the throughput of that device to last the 3 years of warranty?
I'm just curious - i've asked before - didn't seem to interest anyone - maybe i'm on the wrong forum - i bet almost everyone in this forum has HACKED (definition modded) their firmware on something - in their life already.
tl;dr: anyone want to hack firmware for SSD to make it better?
2nd time i've posted this: we hack bios to overclock better, phones kernels, gpu's.
why not storage? If you can decrypt the firmware (arm/mips/etc) and alter parameters that improve performance and longevity/power consumption/logging of data not present to mere consumers.
Now the question is who can get their hands on any firmware - and who can decrypt it - ie use a debugger to wait for it to decrypt into ram and booya - or other mad skills - for educational purposes only. I suspect they decrypt on the drive given the feature of AES-128 but that doesn't stop bootloader hackers from putting gingerbread on something that would never get it naturally.
It would be cool to understand better how a drive works - even if its reference driver material from an out of business ssd maker - and to that point we'd start to understand how to make our own.
Back in the days - N770 was the small device to have - hackable - very weaksauce - the nand on the main board was RAW like xD (olympus) - no brains - software bugs in the o/s could burn out nand - If you remember back even further to a Satellite company - who used this ECM to get their naughty customers by contiuosly looping writes to a boot block entry point - rendering a demand for boot-loaders that patched over this. Glitching etc.
So that N770 had to use modern file systems like Compressed Journalled filesystem written to work with nand that had no brains - in theory if it was coded for specific nand - it would be the open-source of a flash drive technology since it used compression/encryption to wear level. No idea where that filesystem went - it's probably redundant nowadays given trans-flash.
So is it cool to talk about hacking SSD roms? Like patching GPU's to perform better, Undervolting laptops to run cooler/longer, Patching phones to do more - better - faster? Does anyone else have a desire to explore this? Hardware hackers that maybe want to roll their own REVODRIVE and use software or arduino-like controller hardware using common parts? Hack that sandforce ssd that you got for $89 that nobody seems to care about fixing the random hiccups (sleep/panics) in all cases? Make a race-car by removing artificial caps put into place to limit the throughput of that device to last the 3 years of warranty?
I'm just curious - i've asked before - didn't seem to interest anyone - maybe i'm on the wrong forum - i bet almost everyone in this forum has HACKED (definition modded) their firmware on something - in their life already.
tl;dr: anyone want to hack firmware for SSD to make it better?
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