HPE 726821-B21 Low Profile Storage Controller Plug-in Card - High-Performance SSD & HDD Support for Servers - Ideal for Data Centers & Enterprise Storage Solutions

Are you looking to protect your data, expand the storage inside the server or secure the data? The HP Smart Array P440/2GB Controller is a low-profile, PCIe3 x8, 12 Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) RAID controller that provides enterprise-class storage performance, increased internal scalability with SAS Expander card, and data protection for HP ProLiant Gen9 10/100 series rack and tower servers. It features eight internal physical links and delivers increased server uptime by providing advanced storage functionality, including online RAID level migration between any RAID levels with flash back write cache (FBWC), global online spare, and pre-failure warning. The Gen9 family of controllers supports the HP Smart Storage Battery. With HP Smart Storage Battery, multiple Smart Array controllers are supported without needing additional backup power sources for each controller, resulting in simple upgrade process.

PCI Express Gen3 x8 link width delivers high performance and data bandwidth up to 8GT/s theoretical maximum bandwidth

Supports legacy and UEFI boot operation on Gen9 servers

The HP Smart Cache feature (HP Smart Cache license is required on P440) is a controller-based read caching solution in a DAS environment that caches the most frequently accessed data ("hot" data) onto

HP Secure Encryption is a Smart Array controller-based data encryption solution for ProLiant Gen9 servers that protects sensitive, mission critical data

Mix-and-match SAS and SATA hard drives lets you deploy drive technology as needed to fit your computing environment