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1. M.2 carrier slot
3. BOSS-N1 controller
5. Power cable
7. Signal cable connector
Technical specifications of BOSS-N1 Monolithic
controller
The following table lists the technical specifications of BOSS-N1 controller:
Table 1. Technical specifications of BOSS-N1 Monolithic
Function or feature
Hot–plug of NVMe M.2 drives
LED activity of M.2 drives
Secure firmware update
RAID levels
Stripe size
Battery backup unit
Non–volatile cache
Virtual disk cache function
Maximum number of virtual disks
Maximum number of drives supported
Support for non–RAID disks
Drive types
PCIe support
Disk cache policy
Configuration (HII)
Full initialization
Fast initialization
Background initialization
RAID 0
RAID 1
Single non–RAID
Dual non–RAID
Foreign import
Consistency check
Patrol read
Load balance
Rebuild
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2. M.2 carrier connector
4. Signal cable
6. Power cable connector
BOSS-N1 Monolithic
Yes
Yes
Yes
Single drive RAID 0 and dual drive RAID 1
Supports default 128 K stripe size only
No
No
Write through
1
2
No
M.2 NVMe
Gen 3
Drive default
Yes
No
Yes
NOTE:
By default, fast initialization is performed when you
create a virtual disk.
No
Yes (single drive RAID 0)
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
N/A
Yes