Hot–plug of M.2 drives |
Yes |
LED activity of M.2 drives |
Yes |
Controlled firmware update |
Yes |
RAID levels |
RAID 1 and Non–RAID |
Stripe size |
Supports default 64 K stripe size only |
Battery backup unit |
No |
Non–volatile cache |
No |
Virtual disk cache function |
Write through |
Maximum number of virtual disks |
1 |
Maximum number of drives supported |
2 |
Support for non–RAID disks |
Yes (supports up to two disks) |
Drive types |
6 Gbps M.2 SATA SSDs x 2 |
PCIe support |
Gen 2 |
Disk cache policy |
Drive default |
TRIM |
Non–RAID mode |
Stripe size supported |
64 K |
Configuration (HII) |
Yes |
Full initialization |
No |
Fast initialization |
Yes
NOTE: By default, fast initialization is performed when you create a virtual disk.
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Background initialization |
No |
RAID 0 |
No |
RAID 1 |
Yes |
Single non–RAID |
Yes |
Dual non–RAID |
Yes |
Degraded RAID 1 and non–RAID |
No |
Foreign import |
Yes |
Consistency check |
No |
Patrol read |
No |
Load balance |
N/A |
Rebuild |
Yes (Only Auto–rebuild) |
Hot spare |
No |
Change rebuild priority/rate |
No |
Virtual disk write back/read ahead cache |
No
NOTE: BOSS-S2 controller does not support controller cache.
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Battery support |
N/A
NOTE: BOSS-S2 controller does not support a battery.
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Non–RAID disk cache policy |
Yes
NOTE: OS controlled or device defaults.
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SMART Info |
Yes
NOTE: Use the BOSS-S2 CLI to retrieve the SMART information from the drives.
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Physical disk hot–plug |
Yes |
Virtual disk expansion |
No |
Virtual disk slicing |
No |
Virtual disk migration |
Yes
NOTE: On new controller, virtual disk must be imported from HII before presented to OS.
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Split mirror |
No
NOTE: System required to shutdown and migrate one physical disk to another system and continue rebuild.
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Non–RAID migration |
Yes |
BIOS configuration utility (Ctrl-M) |
Yes |
Add on driver for data path (OS device driver) |
No
NOTE: Console Windows driver or Linux library is required for management purposes only.
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4 K native drive support |
No |
TRIM and UNMAP virtual disk |
No |
TRIM and UNMAP non–RAID physical disk |
Yes |
Self-encrypting drives (SED) support |
No |
Cryptographic erase (sanitize) |
Yes
NOTE: If drive supports SANITIZE Crypto Erase. No other encryption support from controller or drive.
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