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.
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.
