So we talked about weird-ass 1.8″ drives, and now let’s look at the other end of the spectrum. Dell has been putting these out on servers lately. I especially like them on the T350 tower server line. There’s a barely-perceptible opening on the faceplate where the carrier bracket slides out.
It’s the BOSS-S2 module. A weirdly engineered, SATA connected M.2 controller. What’s weird about it, you ask? Well, the module has two slots for a pair of M.2 carrier cards mounted in opposite orientations. The module has a built-in RAID controller, which makes it perfect for an OS boot “drive.” A pair of M.2 drives in a RAID 1 configuration makes a great choice, and frees up all your front-panel drives for storage.
