So I noticed this interesting article today: https://riscv.org/2017/12/anandtech-art ... platforms/
Seems that WD is planning to make a move away from their proprietary processors (mostly provided from Marvell) over to using ones based on RISC-V which is actually a more open instruction set similar to ARM processors. (more on RISC-V here: https://riscv.org/)
It's uncertain whether this is just for their SSDs or if it'll also affect their HDDs and SSHDs going forward, but it could be an interesting change. Going to a more open platform like that may make it possible for tools like PC-3000 to upload and run their own entire program in RAM to bypass a lot of the drives normal function. Perhaps in the future we'll just be pressing "upload" and the ace software will fully control the drive while data is extracted.
Seems that WD is planning to make a move away from their proprietary processors (mostly provided from Marvell) over to using ones based on RISC-V which is actually a more open instruction set similar to ARM processors. (more on RISC-V here: https://riscv.org/)
It's uncertain whether this is just for their SSDs or if it'll also affect their HDDs and SSHDs going forward, but it could be an interesting change. Going to a more open platform like that may make it possible for tools like PC-3000 to upload and run their own entire program in RAM to bypass a lot of the drives normal function. Perhaps in the future we'll just be pressing "upload" and the ace software will fully control the drive while data is extracted.