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.
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