Both of you might want to have a look here-
I don’t know if it will help with all drives wiped, but with another WDSS available you might make it work.
PLEASE NOTE: Read the entire article before you try anything. The author went through a lot to succeed, and there are significant warnings. The most important, in my book, is that you should image your drives and work with the copies. This will give you an extra level of safety.
There may be other such accounts. This is the first one I found which seems to apply.
EDIT: There is substantial information on debricking a WDSS in the posts from this search-
