Re: [Trisquel-users] Librem 15: A Free/Libre and Open Source Laptop That Respects Your Essential Freedoms

[chris]

I believe all hard disk drives contain non-free firmware. I think there is a  
project working on free'ing a series of SSD drive firmware. I haven't looked  
into it personally, but I know we've talked about it internally (@  
ThinkPenguin) before. If anybody has more info on it I'd love to hear about  
it. Particularly if they have flashed a drive and how well it works. What are  
the drawbacks? Is the data at risk? Does the drive's performance degrade? Is  
it reversible? If so how? How long does it take to degrade? Does the  
performance still out-do a traditional disk?

This project may have code out, but it may not be something that can be  
realistically free'd/used in a real-world or production scenario. My gut  
would tell me replacing this firmware is extremely risky business.