- Affordable, low cost storage
- Flexible/scalable
- Easy to manage
- High performance 6 Gb SAS host connectivity
- HPE reliability
Has your business exceeded your storage capacity? Manage your small and midrange business' growing storage needs by deploying the HP D2000 Disk Enclosures, the next generation 6 Gb SAS low-cost, high-capacity, tiered external storage system. The HP D2000 Disk Enclosures are ideal for your small application environments, remote offices and departmental locations. The new 6 Gb SAS enclosures-Large Form Factor (LFF) D2600 with 12 drive bays and Small Form Factor (SFF) D2700 with 25 drive bays-offer flexible, modular solutions to simplify capacity expansion of HP ProLiant and Integrity server environments and MSA Arrays (SFF only) to external storage without having to make the full move to SAN or NAS. This allows you to buy what is needed today and purchase additional capacity as data storage needs grow. Total support can grow up to 96 LFF or 200 SFF drives as needed.
- Increased performance, scalability and data protection, with reduced initial setup time
The HPE Smart Array P421 Controller is a low profile, 6 Gb/s, PCIe 3.0, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) RAID controller that provides enterprise class, storage performance, maximum external scalability, and data protection for select HP ProLiant Gen8 rack and tower servers. It features eight external SAS ports and delivers increased server uptime by providing advanced storage functionality, including online RAID level migration (between any RAID levels) with flash back write cache, global online spare, and pre-failure warning. Data Compatibility among all models of Smart Array controllers allows simple and easy migration at any time when needs for higher performance, capacity, and availability increase. Even new generations of Smart Array controllers can understand the data format of previous generations of Smart Array controllers.