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HPE MSA 2050 SAN Storage
Looking for affordable, high-performance shared storage?
The HPE MSA 2050 SAN Storage is a flash ready system designed for affordable application acceleration ideal for small and remote office deployments. Don’t let the low cost fool you, it gives you the combination of simplicity, flexibility to grow now, and advanced features you may not expect in an entry-priced array. Start small and scale as needed with any combination of solid state drives (SSDs), high-performance enterprise, or lower-cost midline SAS-based hard disk drives (HDDs). HPE MSA 2050 SAN Storage has been the industry-leading entry storage Fibre Channel (FC) platform for the past eight years, with nearly 500,000 systems sold worldwide1. Delivers 2x higher performance2 than the previous generation at the same price, delivering in excess of 200,000 IOPS. It’s seriously simple and affordable flash-ready storage to help you get the most performance for the lowest cost.
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ConfigurationsHPE MSA 2050 SAS Dual Controller LFF Storage
Q1J28B
- 12 Gb SAS 8-ports per system
- Up to 12 LFF SAS/MDL and/or SAS/SSD supported
- 2x HPE MSA 2050 SAS controllers included
HPE MSA 2050 SAN Dual Controller LFF Storage
Q1J00B
- 16Gb/8Gb Fibre Channel 8-ports per system or 1GbE/10GbE iSCSI 8-ports per system
- Up to 12 LFF SAS/MDL and/or SAS/SSD supported
- 2x HPE MSA 2050 SAN controllers included
HPE MSA 2050 SAS Dual Controller SFF Storage
Q1J29B
- 12 Gb SAS 8-ports per system
- Up to 24 SFF SAS/ENT and/or SAS/SSD supported
- 2x HPE MSA 2050 SAS controllers included
HPE MSA 2050 SAN Dual Controller SFF Storage
Q1J01B
- 16Gb/8Gb Fibre Channel 8-ports per system or 1GbE/10GbE iSCSI 8-ports per system
- Up to 24 SFF SAS/ENT and/or SAS/SSD supported
- 2x HPE MSA 2050 SAN controllers included
HPE MSA 2050 SAS DC Power LFF Storage
Q2P39A
- One 12 Gb SAS 4-ports per controller is included
- Up to 12 LFF SAS/MDL and/or SAS/SSD supported
- 2x HPE MSA 2050 SAS controllers included
HPE MSA 2050 SAS Dual Controller LFF Storage
Q1J28A
- 12 Gb SAS 8-ports per system
- Up to 12 LFF SAS/MDL and/or SAS/SSD supported
- 2x HPE MSA 2050 SAS controllers included
HPE MSA 2050 SAN Dual Controller LFF Storage
Q1J00A
- 16Gb/8Gb Fibre Channel 8-ports per system or 1GbE/10GbE iSCSI 8-ports per system
- Up to 12 LFF SAS/MDL and/or SAS/SSD supported
- 2x HPE MSA 2050 SAN controllers included
HPE MSA 2050 SAS NEBS Certified DC Power SFF Storage
Q1J32A
- 12 Gb SAS 8-ports per system
- Up to 24 SFF SAS/ENT and/or SAS/SSD supported
- 2x HPE MSA 2050 SAS controllers included
HPE MSA 2050 SAN Dual Controller SFF Storage
Q1J01A
- 16Gb/8Gb Fibre Channel 8-ports per system or 1GbE/10GbE iSCSI 8-ports per system
- Up to 24 SFF SAS/ENT and/or SAS/SSD supported
- 2x HPE MSA 2050 SAN controllers included
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What's New
- New TAA-compliant HPE MSA 2050 Dual Controller Storage Array models including support for SAN SFF and SAN LFF.
Key Features
Accelerates Applications Affordably
The HPE MSA 2050 SAN Storage performs at 200,000 IOPS delivering affordable application acceleration for small to medium-sized businesses both local and remote.
Flexible base model delivers 2X more performance than the previous generation HPE MSA 2040 SAN Storage for the same price.
Advanced Data Services with no Experience Required
The HPE MSA 2050 SAN Storage is easy to install, easy to use, easy to maintain, no previous storage expertise required.
Automated tiering dynamically responds to workload changes, so you don’t have to.
Keep your Business Running with Expanded Data Protection Features
The HPE MSA 2050 SAN Storage delivers updated virtualized snapshot technology making data protection and instant recovery a snap.
Remote replication with Fibre Channel (FC) and iSCSI supports an affordable disaster recovery solution.
Encrypted SSDs and HDDs for a data secure hybrid flash array.
Grow Flexibly Now and Into the Future
The HPE MSA 2050 SAN Storage supports data-in-place upgrades protecting drive investments and reduces data migrations.
Start small and scale as needed with any combination of SSDs, enterprise or midline SAS HDDs.
[1] Source: IDC WW Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker, 4Q16, based on vendor revenues.
[2] Performance based on comparison of HPE MSA 2040 SAN Storage to the HPE MSA 2050 SAN Storage systems using 16 Gb Fibre Channel 'Virtual' storage, Mixed Use SSDs, RAID 1, 8K Random Reads and Writes. IOPS: MSA 2050 Random Reads 220,600 MSA 2040 Random Reads 96,000 Improvement: 2.3x MSA 2050 Random Writes 102,800 MSA 2040 Random Writes 40,500 Improvement: 2.5x
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