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.
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.
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
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
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slazer2au@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 1y
Nothing is more permanent than a temporary fix.
Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 1y
Update: to the surprise of no one, the tape has already failed after two hours at room temperature.
b000rg@midwest.social · 16 pts · 1y
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?
Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1y
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.
macaroni1556@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y
Even when they do give the manual they rarely state and sonetimes randomy change between bios updates... Did it work? I need to know!
Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
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.
bahbah23@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
What is it
glimse@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y
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
Rooki@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
My question would be, how should it be normally? Is it not compatible with that short nvmes? or does it need an adapter?
glimse@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
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
Rooki@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Yeah the holes are drawn onto the board but not drilled. Probably to cut corners for few microbucks savings.
Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
Yes, you're both right. Here's the cheapo card in question.
loam@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y
Looks like holding 4 SSDs in place with a strip of tape instead of mounting screws
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y
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
ThePantser@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
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.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 1y
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...
AnotherMadHatter@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Nomecks@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y
Dab of hot glue on each one to keep it stuck down.