Mac Studio: Those aren't SSDs. Those are raw storage modules
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What did he mean by this? I've never heard of SSDs having "corrupted raw storage". They might develop bad sectors, but they can detect and work around them.
In Apple's case there's a BootROM literally laid out in the mask of the secure enclave. It's read-only and it's permanent. This BootROM has a fallback that can be used to at least load a new iBoot image from scratch. So even if the NAND on the flash is scrambled you can still boot the machine in DFU mode, install a new iBoot, and bootstrap the machine from there. You won't have the data but at least your NAND still works.
this sounds like a really bad idea, why would they do that? save a NAND?
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