Supported M.2 Drives Of Boss-N1 Monolithic Controllers - Dell BOSS-N1 User Manual

Table 1. Technical specifications of BOSS-N1 Monolithic (continued)
Function or feature
Hot spare
Change rebuild priority/rate
Virtual disk write back/read ahead cache
Battery support
Non–RAID disk cache policy
SMART Info
Physical disk hot–plug
Virtual disk expansion
Virtual disk slicing
Virtual disk migration
Split mirror
Non–RAID migration
BIOS configuration utility (Ctrl-M)
Add on driver for data path (operating system device
driver)
4 K native drive support
TRIM and UNMAP virtual disk
TRIM and UNMAP non–RAID physical disk
Self-encrypting drives (SED) support
Cryptographic erase (sanitize)
Supported M.2 drives of BOSS-N1 Monolithic
controllers
The BOSS-N1 Monolithic controllers support M.2 drives in the following table:
CAUTION: The BOSS-N1 Monolithic controller is tested and supported only with the M.2 drives that are shipped
with the controller.
BOSS-N1 Monolithic
No
No
No
NOTE: BOSS-N1 does not support controller cache.
N/A
NOTE: BOSS-N1 does not support a battery.
Yes
NOTE: Operating system controlled or device defaults.
Yes
NOTE: Use the BOSS-N1 CLI to retrieve the SMART
information from the drives.
Yes
No
No
Yes
NOTE: On a new controller, virtual disks must be imported
from HII before presented to operating system.
No
NOTE: Shut down the system and migrate one physical disk
to another system and continue rebuild.
Not applicable
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
NOTE: If drive supports Sanitize Crypto Erase. No other
encryption support from controller or drive.
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