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There is a Russian dude who, for the price of ~$10/drive, will RDP into a Windows environment and flash the drives for you. [https://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=39927&sid=121a6e12d2d1fdaf816fe00eedac1745]
 
He runs a custom script he made that uses WD Niagara (an internal Western Digital tool intended OEMs for advancedOEMs HDDlike operationsDell/HP) to unlock the drives, then uses Niagara's built-in "firmware download" to flash the firmware.
 
He has uploaded a video of the process to YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAhS_sk3wKE]

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