u/AboutToSnap — reddlx

Setting up a new 10” rack and trying to consolidate my media server into something more size appropriate, which meant dumping my big mATX motherboard for one of the tiny 1L options… I picked up an 11th gen M70Q for next to nothing, but I still needed to run six spinning drives (now in a JBOD enclosure).

I’ve been using a cheap ASM1166 M key adapter in a NVME slot beautifully for a year or so, but the M70Q only has an A+E key WiFi slot on top, and no space to place one of these adapters. A $10 Amazon adapter and couple hours in tinkercad later… I’ve printed a bracket that just barely fits with no lid modification. I just need to do some cable securing, but everything is performing beautifully.