Drives and Storage

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.

Do you need a self-contained resilient boot solution that does not impact overall server storage capacity or consume a PCIe slot?

HPE Flash Memory Cards and USB Drives are engineered with enterprise-class high endurance NAND for life within non-stop datacenter environments. Using the highest industry flash technology to provide a higher level of performance and longer endurance characteristics at an enterprise level, each device undergoes rigorous testing and software validation to verify the highest level of quality and reliability while running on HPE ProLiant servers.

Do you need to accelerate the performance of your mixed use applications?

HPE NVMe High Performance Mixed Use (MU) Enterprise and Datacenter Standard Form Factor (EDSFF) E3.S Solid State Drives (SSDs) are best suited for high I/O applications that require a balanced performance between reads and writes to deliver high performance and endurance for data-intensive applications. NVMe High Performance MU SSDs communicate directly to applications via the PCIe Gen 5 bus to boost I/O bandwidth and reduce latency.

HPE NVMe High Performance MU EDSFF E3.S SSDs replace the traditional 2.5 inch small form factor SSD while supporting greater density of NVMe drives. It delivers high performance, lower latency data transfers from storage significantly faster than SAS or SATA SSDs. Designed to utilize the high bandwidth of PCIe Gen 5 in select servers for mixed use workloads such as Big Data analytics, HPC, and virtualization.

Searching for an optical drive for your HPE ProLiant server?

The DVD-RW drive is capable of reading DVD 4.7 GB through 8.5 GB media. It can also read standard stamped, CD-R, and CD-RW media. This drive supports writing to CD-R, CD-RW, DVD+R/RW, and DVD-R/RW media via software utilities. For Microsoft® operating systems, this is available by installing the included Roxio software disk. For other operating systems, an operating system-specific software utility is required for writing to media.

The DVD-ROM drive is designed to read not only CD-ROM and CD-R/RW discs but also DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM, DVD+R/RW and DVD-R/RW discs.