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Have a ready Qemu image of a Windows install. Have a live distro that has (or can install to RAM) Qemu. Boot Windows using Qemu in the live environment, and VFIO-passthrough your NVME as a PCI device. Install and run the official Windows-based update tool, which now has raw access to the SSD.
At least that's what I'm doing for my WD.
Thanks. Nice to know. So I'll not get a WD, then.
To each their own.
I thought that the trick with exposing the raw hardware to a VM was the coolest thing ever, since it negates this entire "do their special tools support Linux" issue. And you do it once every 6 months, maybe 4 times in total, until releases taper off.
But I don't want to deal with Windows at all. Something like this may be acceptable for existing "pre Linux" hardware to have a solution after migration.
But I need new hardware in an environment where no Windows is left.