Drives and Storage

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.

HPE Universal half-height half-length enablement kit

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 to accelerate the performance of your read intensive applications?

HPE NVMe Mainstream Performance Very Read Optimized (VRO) Enterprise and Datacenter Standard Form Factor (EDSFF) E3.S Solid State Drives (SSDs) are best suited for applications requiring a massive amount of data to be stored and assessed at a strong price point. NVMe SSDs communicate directly to applications via the PCIe bus to boost I/O bandwidth and reduce latency. HPE NVMe EDSFF E3.S SSD replaces the traditional 2.5 inch small form factor SSD while supporting greater density of NVMe drives. It provides high-performance data transfers at rates faster than SAS or SATA SSDs. The HPE NVMe Mainstream Performance Very Read Optimized EDSFF E3.S SSDs were designed to utilize the high bandwidth of PCIe Gen5 on Hewlett Packard Enterprise servers and storage with workloads high in reads such as AI, content-delivery networks, and data analytics.

Do your read-intensive workloads need consistently high performance from a Solid State Drive with low latency and reduced power consumption?

HPE SATA M.2 Read Intensive (RI) Solid State Drives (SSDs) deliver enterprise features and performance at an affordable price for workloads high in reads such as boot/swap, web servers, and read caching. Hewlett Packard Enterprise SSDs are backed by over 3 million hours of testing and qualification in various environments, certifying reliable, high performing drives.¹ HPE Digitally Signed Firmware prevents unauthorized access to your data by verifying that drive firmware comes from a trusted source. HPE SATA M.2 RI SSDs achieves higher Input/Output Per Second (IOPs) to enhance the performance of your data center, giving you faster access to data with excellent latency. With reduced power consumption, it provides improved IOPS/W versus rotating media and reduces datacenter cooling costs.

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

HPE 12 Gb Value SAS Mixed Use (MU) SSDs optimize your enterprise with faster data transfer rates and near price parity compared to 6 Gb SATA SSDs. HPE Value SAS MU SSDs deliver enterprise features at an affordable price for applications requiring a balanced mix of read and write performance, and are ideal for database, transactional applications and virtualization workloads.

HPE 12 Gb Value SAS MU SSDs transfer data at full duplex (bidirectional) allowing greater I/O bandwidth to alleviate bottlenecks at twice the 6 Gb interface of SATA SSDs. A single-ported version of enterprise 12 Gb SAS, HPE Value SAS MU SSDs provide slightly reduced performance in exchange for being price competitive to enterprise SATA SSDs.

HPE 12 Gb Value SAS SSDs are presented as an HPE Multi Vendor SKU offering which provides customers with the shortest lead time to available supply on preferably priced HPE Value SAS SSDs.