• glimse@lemmy.world
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      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

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        My question would be, how should it be normally? Is it not compatible with that short nvmes? or does it need an adapter?

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          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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      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

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      Looks like holding 4 SSDs in place with a strip of tape instead of mounting screws