Dell BOSS-S2 Card Kit with 2x 480GB M.2 SSD
SKU BC-0000006Brand Dell
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About this part
Refurbished Dell BOSS-S2 2x 480GB kit, a rear-access operating system 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 480GB 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 R750.
When to Choose This
The 480GB S2 pair fits Windows Server on bare metal with local logs, page file and updates, or a Linux root with space under /var. For hypervisor-only boot the 240GB kit does the same job; for container images or long log retention on the root, take 1TB. Against a BOSS-S1 adapter, S2 keeps the PCIe slots free and lets you swap a drive without downtime.
Installation Notes
Set up the RAID 1 virtual disk in the BOSS-S2 configuration utility before the OS install. Each M.2 has its own rear LED, so a degraded drive is hot-swapped without opening the chassis.
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