Dell EMC PowerEdge R740 - Tape Drives; Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem (BOSS)

Tape Drives
The R740 and R740xd do not support internal tape drives. However, external tape backup devices will be supported on both R740 and
R740xd.
Supported external tape drives:
• External RD1000 USB
• External LTO-5, LTO-6, LTO-7 and 6 Gb SAS tape drives
• 114X rack mount chassis with LTO-5, LTO-6, and LTO-7 6Gb SAS tape drives
• TL1000 with LTO-5, LTO-6, and LTO-7 6 Gb SAS tape drives
• TL2000 with LTO-5, LTO-6, and LTO-7 6 Gb SAS tape drives
• TL4000 with LTO-5, LTO-6, and LTO-7 6 Gb SAS tape drives
• TL4000 with LTO-5, LTO-6, and LTO-7 8Gb FC tape drives
• ML6000 with LTO-5, LTO-6, 6 Gb SAS tape drives
• ML6000 with LTO-5, LTO-6, LTO-7 8Gb FC tape drives
Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem (BOSS)
The BOSS is oered as a means of booting R740/R740xd systems to a full OS mode when,
• target OS is a full OS and not hypervisor that may supported best by IDSDM
• the user does not wish to trade o standard hot plug drive slots for OS install
The Hardware RAID BOSS is a RAID controller with a limited feature set for the purpose of boot up to a full OS drive. The BOSS RAID
controller presents M.2 SATA-only Solid State drives (SSD) as either Non-RAID disks or a single RAID1 volume conguration.
Figure 13. Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem (BOSS)
Table 13. BOSS RAID controller features
Function/Feature Supported
Stripe size supported 64k
Conguration (HII) Yes
Full initialization No
Fast initialization Yes
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