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Likewise, I'm skeptical of "neither the SSD nor the data can be recovered"

If the firmware crashes during boot with negative hour counter, it probably could be only fixed by manually flashing new firmware over JTAG.

...and likely some of the data recovery companies already know about and are prepared for this.

$500 ~ $1k for a JTAG flash. I'm sure they have plenty of other drives that come in and they price at $1k but that take days longer than expected, so it probably all balances itself out eventually.

Or they swap boards and you eventually end up with the same problem...

In an SSD the board is the drive.

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