| 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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