Dell BOSS-S2 Card Kit with 2x 240GB M.2 SSD
SKU BC-0000005Brand Dell
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About this part
Refurbished Dell BOSS-S2 2x 240GB kit, a rear hot-plug hypervisor boot mirror for the BOSS slot in Dell 15th gen PowerEdge servers. Dell BOSS mirrors two M.2 SATA SSDs in hardware RAID 1 on a dedicated controller, so the operating system boots off the front bays and does not use a PERC channel. Dell supports one virtual disk per card, so the pair is the boot volume and nothing else.
Specifications
| Part number | FRY80 |
|---|---|
| Type | BOSS-S2 rear boot module kit |
| Drives | 2x 240GB M.2 SATA SSD, 80mm |
| RAID | Hardware RAID 1 or non-RAID |
| Interface | PCIe Gen 2 x4 host, 6 Gb/s SATA |
| Form factor | Rear hot-plug M.2 module |
| Condition | Refurbished |
| Warranty | 180-day |
Compatibility
BOSS-S2 mounts in the integrated BOSS slot at the rear, cabled to the system board with BOSS power and signal cables; it does not go in a riser slot. It runs two 80mm M.2 SATA SSDs in RAID 1 or non-RAID, no RAID 0, one virtual disk. It is not NVMe; Dell moved to the NVMe BOSS-N1 on 16th gen. Browse matching parts for the Dell PowerEdge R650.
When to Choose This
Choose the 240GB S2 pair for an ESXi or Hyper-V boot mirror where the virtual machines live on the data array; a hypervisor never fills it. The reason to pick S2 over a BOSS-S1 adapter on these chassis is service: a failed M.2 comes out the rear with the server running, and the card rebuilds the mirror. Step up to 480GB when Windows Server runs on bare metal.
Installation Notes
Create the RAID 1 virtual disk in the BOSS-S2 configuration utility and set it first in UEFI boot order. A failed M.2, marked by its LED, comes out the rear with the server running.
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