The HPE Smart Array P721m is a PCI express (PCIe) 3.0 mezzanine card supporting direct attached and Shared SAS Storage for the HPE ProLiant Gen8 Blade servers. The 655636-B21 provides new levels of connectivity, and storage performance for HPE Gen8 Blade servers through its support of the latest advanced RAID capabilities. HPE Smart Array P721M/512 Flash Backed Write Cache, 6 Gigabit 4-Port, Mezzanine SAS controller. The 655636-B21 is for the following Gen8 HPE ProLiant servers: BL420c, BL460c, BL465c, BL660c.
Storage Features:
- 8 6Gb/s SAS physical links distributed equally across 4 external 2x ports to support up to 4 6Gb/s SAS Switches
- 6Gb/s SAS delivers up to 600Mb/s per physical link
- 6Gb/s SATA delivers up to 600 Mb/s per physical link for directly attached STA drives
- Mix-and-match SAS/SATA drives to the same controller and deploy drive as needed to fit your computing environment
RAID Controller:
- 512MB or 2GB Cache
- RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, 6, 60, 1 ADM (Advanced Data Mirroring), 10ADM (Advanced Data Mirroring).
- HPE Smart Storage Administrator, HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM) and HPE Intelligent Provisioning. HPE Smart Storage Administrator configures and manages a host of smart array controllers and other storage. devices using a single interface. It replaces the HPE Array Configuration Utility (ACU) with an updated design and configuration enhancements.
RAID Fault Prevention
- Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) which detects possible drive failure before it occurs, giving you time to replace the drive before failure occurs.
- Drive parameter tracking monitors drive operational parameters, predicting failure and notifying system administrators on which day may possibly fail.
- Dynamic sector repairing which automatically remaps bad sectors which ensures data integrity when the hard drives are inactive for a long duration or period.
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