Having used Dell BOSS S1 cards even in other Dell servers, there is firmware integration limitations to be seen. Even an R730 won't fully tolerate an R740's BOSS - those I've only seen work in the R740 and higher. The control interface for the S1 (and presumably S2) cards is integrated into a menu system in Dell's BIOS and iDRAC.
I know specifically for the BOSS-S1, there's a Startech board that has a similar form factor and uses the same SATA RAID chipset, but without the Dell firmware. That Startech board works in non-Dell servers and workstations and has mostly the same features as the S1. (I 100% used my laptop's eGPU to set them up a few times. It also definitely causes Windows to BSOD a few times because it doesn't know how to eject an entire disk controller, but that's also entirely my fault). The Startech controller has not really given me any major problems once I got it up, and has run in my R730s with near 100% uptime for a few months now.
You may look to see if Startech has an NVMe version now to find a counterpart for the BOSS-N1 - I haven't checked recently.
Something else to consider is what your RAID array will actually be doing: M.2 SATA may be fast enough to be a boot disk, while your "real" data array uses SAS or NVMe to get to the CPU. You can even elect to use something fancier like Ceph or ZFS to handle the real data disks without a hardware RAID card. If you're just booting the server hypervisor and maybe a low level agent VM or two and the real data is on another array, that Startech card may be for you. (You just need FreeDOS to re flash it to EFI mode)
This is not funny and any man wearing this would probably not pass a similar test using any woman's criteria. If I saw someone wearing this my first thought would certainly not be "hey this is a guy with a great sense of humor and I would like to hang with him!".
From what I can tell this isn't going to function, mainly just due to the additional proprietary connectors on that Dell card. I imagine there's some sort of firmware integration as well though since it's got a data line coming off it too. Quick side question, is there any reason you're not just picking up some N95 boxes off Amazon? They're so cheap you'd pay for them in power savings vs this box alone and you could essentially treat it as a Raid 1 of the entire system with a handful of backup scripts.
Reminded me a lot of Discovery. What a cool episode for Zero - their character design is quite fitting I think and looks good. Wonder if we'll ever see that in live action. @startrek
I'm not sure exactly what I thought was going to be behind the mid 20th century vault door, but it certainly wasn't Wesley Crusher. I didn't hate it either. Was the sweater that he was wearing one that he wore in TNG? It seemed very familiar.
The Loom are terrifying. We've seen "getting erased completely from history" before with the Krenim time weapon (VOY: Year of Hell), but this version seemed so much worse to me.
I loved the bit regarding all the separate realities, including the "oops you aren't supposed to know that" regarding the mycelial plane.
Seeing Janeway take on the Loom by herself in a shuttle reminded me of her taking on the macrovirus in VOY: Macrocosm.
Gillian (the whale!) piloting the ship through the wormhole
Wesley finally calling his mom, but then showing up behind her as a surprise
The tie-in to the Picard synth attach at the end where the crew reacts to seeing the Mars attack on the news
Janeway pushing to continue some scientific and humanitarian missions
I do have a question though. I have been getting "these two people seem to want to get together vibes" in between Chakotay and Janeway starting in the episode "Cracked Mirror". Was this just wishful thinking on my part?
Speaking of relationships, were holo-Janeway and the Doctor flirting?
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