{"id":1838,"date":"2023-10-19T20:17:23","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T00:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/?p=1838"},"modified":"2023-10-19T20:17:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T00:17:25","slug":"and-on-the-opposite-end-of-the-spectrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/2023\/10\/and-on-the-opposite-end-of-the-spectrum\/","title":{"rendered":"And on the opposite end of the spectrum&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So we talked about weird-ass 1.8&#8243; drives, and now let&#8217;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&#8217;s a barely-perceptible opening on the faceplate where the carrier bracket slides out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s the BOSS-S2 module. A weirdly engineered, SATA connected M.2 controller. What&#8217;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 &#8220;drive.&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-2-576x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-2-576x1024.png 576w, https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-2-350x622.png 350w, https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-2-169x300.png 169w, https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-2-768x1365.png 768w, https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-2-864x1536.png 864w, https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-2.png 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we talked about weird-ass 1.8&#8243; drives, and now let&#8217;s look at the other end of the spectrum. Dell has been putting these out on servers lately. I especially like &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/2023\/10\/and-on-the-opposite-end-of-the-spectrum\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;And on the opposite end of the spectrum&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[66,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporate-schmorporate","category-hardware"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1840,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions\/1840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dc540.org\/xxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}