- Seamless upgrades from past generations and upgrades to next generation HPE high performance and high capacity Serial Attached SCSI Smart Array controllers
- 3G SAS technology delivers high performance and data bandwidth
- X8 5G PCI Express 2.0 host interface technology delivers high performance and data bandwidth up to 5 GB/s maximum bandwidth
- Performance Optimization-Degraded Reads and Read Coalescing (VOD)
- Mix-and-match SAS and SATA hard drives, lets you deploy drive technology as needed to fit your computing environment
- The SA-P212 controller supports up to 54 drives
- Low-profile PCI Express form factor - ships with a full size bracket for deployment in either a low-profile or full sized slot
The HP Smart Array P212 is HP's entry level PCI Express (PCIe) Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) RAID controller. The Low Profile, Half Height card has 8 ports and utilizes DDR2-266 memory. The P212 is ideal for RAID 0/1, 1+0 and can be upgraded with the 256MB battery-backed write cache (BBWC) module for RAID 5, 5+0.