RAID card...with black PCB?

joxang · 19 Mar 2011 at 12:11

Anyone come across one before? Can't find one for sale anywhere.

I'll be damned if I'm putting some ugly stand-out green thing in my build.

paradisiac · 19 Mar 2011 at 12:14

did you try google? i just typed black raid pci card and loads popped up :confused:

joxang · 19 Mar 2011 at 12:25

Sorry should have been more specific - I meant a RAID card with a good on-board controller for 'hardware' RAID e.g. adaptec, rocketraid. I found a couple of cheap £10-20 cards which facilitate software RAIDing but are horribly unreliable.

rpstewart · 20 Mar 2011 at 13:04

Decent hardware RAID cards are designed to be put into machines that people never see the outside of, let alone the inside. I would say your chances of finding a black one are slim to nil.

Ch3m1c4L · 20 Mar 2011 at 22:11

Could get someone to make a custom shroud out of black perspex or black sprayed metal?

joxang · 20 Mar 2011 at 22:55

Ch3m1c4L said:
Could get someone to make a custom shroud out of black perspex or black sprayed metal?

Yeh I'm going to get an adaptec one and make a black mesh cover for it. Don't know how I'm going to attach it yet though...With a GPU back cover you can use motherboard stand-offs but there's no attachment holes on a RAID card. Might have to find some black plastic clippy things and improvise a little bit

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Ch3m1c4L · 20 Mar 2011 at 23:02

If the card has "space" at the edge of the PCB, simply use some plastic clips on those bits? If not, create a bit of mesh in each corner that goes to nearly touching it and use arctic ceramic or glue/blue tack etc? depends how nice you can make it look I suppose, but you could always not have mesh on the corner bits and have it solid?

joxang · 20 Mar 2011 at 23:24

Ch3m1c4L said:
If the card has "space" at the edge of the PCB, simply use some plastic clips on those bits? If not, create a bit of mesh in each corner that goes to nearly touching it and use arctic ceramic or glue/blue tack etc? depends how nice you can make it look I suppose, but you could always not have mesh on the corner bits and have it solid?

I got some spare T-shaped clips from an old arctic gpu cooler that would probably fit onto the pcb. I think two on the top edge, and one on the bottom edge that extends out from the motherboard slot. I'll bend the mesh so it's stuck onto the top two clips and have part of it bent around the extending bit and soldered back onto the other side. I'll do a mock-up with card when my RAID card arrives anyhow

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