Corporate giveaways, trade show drives, and budget bulk orders almost exclusively use 3S controllers. The SSS6698-BB provides "USB 3.0" branding on the packaging without the cost of a 4-channel controller.
: The USB 2.0 era saw a proliferation of controller manufacturers (Phison, Alcor, Silicon Motion, SSS/3S, and others). Not all attracted dedicated reverse-engineering communities. SSS controllers drew relatively less attention than competitors like Phison, which had more active tool distribution networks.
“There is no marker in service area so it’s impossible to recover data by block number. Also there is translator but it’s encrypted so we can’t recover via translator too. I see raw recovery only.”