Drives and Storage

Do you need faster access for your virtualized environment or just faster operating system boot? HPE Qualified Options now includes HPE Flash Media Kits for USB Drive/Keys for customers requiring uncompromising quality and performance in virtualization environments or OS boot applications. HPE tests and qualifies these devices using the highest industry flash technology that provides a higher level of performance and longer endurance characteristics at an enterprise level. Each device undergoes rigorous performance testing, software validation and strict revision control to verify the highest level of quality and reliability while running on HPE ProLiant servers. Form factors including USB Key, SD Card, and microSD Card are offered allowing the flexibility to support direct OS boot or virtualization across the HPE ProLiant portfolio.

Do you need to accelerate the performance of your data-intensive application workloads? HPE Server Write Intensive (WI) Solid State Drives (SSDs) deliver high performance and endurance while reducing power consumption for customers with applications requiring high random read and write IOPS performance. HPE Server WI SSDs offer the highest performance for write intensive applications and typically have an endurance of <10 drive writes per day. All HPE SSDs are backed by over 3.35 million hours of testing and qualification [1] ensuring reliable, high performing drives. HPE Digitally Signed Firmware prevents unauthorized access to your data by providing the assurance that drive firmware comes from a trusted source. The self-describing icons on the HPE Smart Carrier take the guess work out of a drive’s status and a “do not remove” button prevents data loss from human error. Monitor the lifespan of your SSD with HPE Smart WearGauge compatibility in management tools.

HPE Server Midline Hard Drives deliver the highest capacity, performance and reliability to your datacenter applications. Midline hard drives allow you to store more data without sacrificing performance or reliability, they are ideal to store all your bulk storage requirements. HPE Server Midline Hard Drives are available in both 3.5-inch Large Form Factor (LFF) and 2.5-inch Small Form Factor (SFF) and ship with a standard one-year warranty. All HPE hard drives pass a rigorous qualification process, which certify that every drive is proven to perform in your HPE ProLiant Server environments. Before final certification, all HPE Server Midline Hard Drives are optimized for compatibility and functionality, including support of SMART and HPE Systems Insight Manager.

HPE offers drives for all your storage needs.

The HPE XP7 Flash Module Device is a FMD unique to XP7. It combines MLC NAND flash and a SAS interface with a custom ASIC controller for superior flash performance. The FMD form factor is larger than traditional SSD and therefore is available in capacities of 1.7 TB, 3.5 TB, 7 TB and 14 TB. They are configurable in a variety of RAID types in the same fashion as other drives and is compatible with all XP7 firmware and software features.

The XP7 Flash Module Device supports wear levelling. In a flash memory each write or erase cycle stresses the cell which in turn causes deterioration of the cell over time. This might cause an imbalance in the cell activity which creates an irregular distribution of these unstable cells thereby impacting the life of flash.

The flash controller monitors the number of writes, erasures and refreshes to eliminate these imbalances by balancing the rate of deterioration in the flash memory cells. This helps in extending the useful lifetime of flash.