Table 1. Technical specifications of BOSS-N1 Monolithic (continued)
Function or feature
BOSS-N1 Monolithic
Hot spare
No
Change rebuild priority/rate
No
Virtual disk write back/read ahead cache
No
NOTE:
BOSS-N1 does not support controller cache.
Battery support
N/A
NOTE:
BOSS-N1 does not support a battery.
Non–RAID disk cache policy
Yes
NOTE:
Operating system controlled or device defaults.
SMART Info
Yes
NOTE:
Use the BOSS-N1 CLI to retrieve the SMART
information from the drives.
Physical disk hot–plug
Yes
Virtual disk expansion
No
Virtual disk slicing
No
Virtual disk migration
Yes
NOTE:
On a new controller, virtual disks must be imported
from HII before presented to operating system.
Split mirror
No
NOTE:
Shut down the system and migrate one physical disk
to another system and continue rebuild.
Non–RAID migration
Not applicable
BIOS configuration utility (Ctrl-M)
No
Add on driver for data path (operating system device
driver)
No
4 K native drive support
No
TRIM and UNMAP virtual disk
No
TRIM and UNMAP non–RAID physical disk
No
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.
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.
Dell Boot Optimized Storage Solution-N1
7
