HPE Smart Array P408e-p SR Gen10 Plug-in Controller

The HPE Smart Array P408e-p SR Gen10 Controller,supporting 12Gb/s SAS and PCIe 3.0,is ideal for maximizing performance on externally attached drives while supporting advanced RAID levels with 4 GB flash-backed write cache (FBWC). This controller operates in Mixed Mode which combines RAID and HBA operations simultaneously. It has eight external SAS lanes,allowing connection to externally attached SAS or SATA drives,and provides enterprise-class storage performance,reliability,security and efficiency needed to address your evolving data storage needs. This controller offers enhanced security by encrypting data-at-rest on any drive with HPE Smart Array SR Secure Encryption.

• Storage interface (SAS/SATA)
• 4 GB Flash-Backed Write Cache (FBWC)
• PCI Express 3.0 x8 link
• RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60, 1 ADM, 10 ADM (Advanced Data Mirroring)
• Mixed Mode(RAID logic drives and HBA physical drives simultaneously)
• Legacy and UEFI boot operation
• UEFI System Utilities (storage configuration)
• Up to 238 physical drives
• Up to 64 logical drives
• 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 S-class and E-class controllers
• FIPS 140-2 Level 1 Implementation Under Test