Nothing is more permanent than a temporary fix.
Update: to the surprise of no one, the tape has already failed after two hours at room temperature.
Only temporary in the sense that the tape will fail as soon as it starts to warm up from these SSDs and latent heat from other components?
Lol, hopefully temporary in the sense that I only need it to work for a couple of minutes, long enough to boot a test system with the card installed in order to find out if the motherboard for which I can’t locate a manual supports PCIe bifurcation. If the board recognizes all the drives then I’ll shut it down and properly install 4 full-length (2280) Samsung drives which I have yet to order.
Even when they do give the manual they rarely state and sonetimes randomy change between bios updates… Did it work? I need to know!
Nope, but being Mr. Magoo, I unknowingly bought another motherboard that turns out to have three M.2 slots on board in addition to plenty of x16 slots so I can just install single-drive M.2 adapters in each slot without needing bifurcation support. I put an i9 in it and holy shit is it ever fast, especially with NVMe RAID.
What is it
Looks like a RAID card with NVME drives held down with electrical tape instead of the screws.
Back in the day I had a RAID controller with a GPU fan taped into it so I get it. The tape stayed there for 6 years. Hopefully OP takes care of it sooner because old electrical tape in a hot environment is absolutely disgusting to clean off
My question would be, how should it be normally? Is it not compatible with that short nvmes? or does it need an adapter?
I tried to find this exactly model and found a dozen similar ones that I’m inclined to think are from the same factory BUT all the ones I saw had the holes drilled for the different length NVMEs. So I’m guessing it’s a no-name brand that cut corners
OP could likely drill their own holes assuming they have the right bit. I can’t see the back of the card but it’s almost definitely blank
Yeah the holes are drawn onto the board but not drilled. Probably to cut corners for few microbucks savings.
Yes, you’re both right. Here’s the cheapo card in question.
Looks like holding 4 SSDs in place with a strip of tape instead of mounting screws
smol SSDs instead of long SSDs. The proper fix would be one of these to elongate it
Or if OP has a 3d printer, one of these
Looks like a need for double sided tape and a 3d printed adapter. Stick the cards down and then use the printed part to hold them down.
I’m not sure if I 3D print so many adapters because it’s a useful, easy, quick solution or if I’m just justifying my 3D printers…
Dab of hot glue on each one to keep it stuck down.
