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HDD Firmware Hacking

  • Ryan Miceli--Icode4.coffee
  • published date: 2026-05-14 16:19:29 UTC

Do you know how a hard drive works? Come find out with me as I dump, reverse engineer, and modify the firmware on various HDDs and SSDs.

Some time last year I was working on an exploit for the Xbox 360 console (which would later turn into the much anticipated softmod) and found myself in need of a way to modify the firmware for a HDD … [+40919 chars]

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