8liech-sc-ssd šŸ†“

Oh, and the device shows up in lspci as ā€œ8L Storage Controller (rev SC)ā€ — but rev SC isn’t in any PCI SIG database.

Let me start by saying: the speeds are real. On paper, the 8liech-sc-ssd shouldn’t exist — PCIe 6.0 x8 in a M.2 2280 form factor with no heatsink? My motherboard’s temperature sensor hit 84°C during the third sequential write test. Didn’t throttle once. Impressive. Unsettling. 8liech-sc-ssd

⭐⭐⭐½ (3.5/5)

I formatted the drive with zeroes overnight. Next morning? Partition was back. Same content. Oh, and the device shows up in lspci

Here’s the weird part: Every time I run fstrim , my Bluetooth mouse stutters exactly 2.3 seconds later. Also, after partitioning with GPT, I found a 47MB ā€œOEM reservedā€ partition labeled 8LIECH_REC . Can’t delete it. Can’t read it. dd returns only repeating hex: 0x8C 0x0A 0x00 0xFF . My motherboard’s temperature sensor hit 84°C during the