Standard Features
Key Features
Storage interface (SAS/SATA)
8 SAS lanes across 2 x4 internal Mini-SAS ports
12Gb/s SAS, 6Gb/s SATA technology
Mix-and-match SAS and SATA drives to the same controller
Support for SAS tape drives
PCI Express 3.0 x8 link
RAID 0, 1, 5, 10
Mixed Mode (RAID logic drives and HBA physical drives simultaneously)
Windows Storage Spaces Direct validated
VMware Virtual SAN certified
Legacy and UEFI boot operation
UEFI System Utilities (storage configuration)
Up to 238 physical drives
Up to 64 logical drives
HPE Smart Array SR Secure Encryption (optional license)
HPE SSD Smart Path
Rapid Parity Initialization (RPI)
Rapid rebuild
Drive Sanitize
Performance Optimization-Degraded Reads and Read Coalescing
Power efficiency
Seamless upgrades from HPE Smart Array Software RAID
Seamless upgrades to HPE Smart Array P-class Controllers
Ports
Internal: 8 SAS/SATA lanes across 2 x4 internal Mini-SAS ports
Form Factor
Type-a Flexible/Modular Controller (does not occupy a PCIe Expansion Slot)
Performance
12Gb/s SAS (1200 MB/s theoretical bandwidth per physical lane)
6Gb/s SATA (600 MB/s theoretical bandwidth per physical lane)
PCI Express 3.0 x8 link width
Fault Prevention
The following features offer detection of possible failures before they occur, allowing preventive action to be taken:
Predictive drive failure detects possible drive failure before it occurs, allowing replacement of the component before failure occurs.
Background surface scan checks drives during inactive periods and automatically remaps bad sectors, ensuring data integrity.
HPE SmartSSD Wear Gauge reports the amount of lifetime remaining on your SSDs.
Fault Recovery
Minimizes downtime, reconstructs data, and facilitates a quick recovery from drive failure
Recovery ROM: This feature protects the user from a firmware image corruption by storing a redundant copy of the firmware image. If the active firmware image becomes corrupt, the controller will use the redundant firmware image and continue operating.
On-Line Spares: There is no limit to the number of spare drives that can be installed prior to drive failure. If a failure occurs, recovery begins with an On-Line Spare and data is reconstructed automatically.
DRAM ECC detects and corrects data bit errors.
HPE SSD Smart Path
The HPE SSD Smart Path feature included in the Smart Array software stack improves Solid State Disk (SSD) read performance by up to 4x. HPE SSD Smart Path chooses the optimum path to the SSD and accelerates reads for all RAID levels and RAID 0 writes.
HPE Smart Array SR Secure Encryption (optional license)
HPE Smart Array SR Secure Encryption is a Smart Array controller-based data encryption solution that protects sensitive, mission critical data. This is an enterprise-class encryption solution for data-at-rest on any drives attached to the HPE Smart Array controllers including data on the controller cache. Secure Encryption requires an optional license per server (see Related Options for more information on the license).
The solution is available for both local and remote key management mode deployments. Local Key Management Mode is focused on single server deployment where there is one Master key per controller that is managed by the user. Remote Key Management Mode is for enterprise wide deployments from just a few servers to thousands of servers.
For more information on please visit: http://www.hpe.com/servers/secureencryption