The HP 70 Modular Smart Array enclosure is a 2U Serial Attach SCSI (SAS) disk drive storage enclosure supporting 2.5 inch SAS , SSD and SATA drives. This enclosure delivers industry-leading data performance, availability, storage density, and upgradeability to meet customer's demanding and growing storage needs. This enclosure is designed to support 2.5 inch SFF Small form factors Drives .
The MSA70 enclosure supports direct attach storage (DAS) to HP ProLiant and Integrity Servers. The MSA70 supports the cascading of shelves in a 1+1 configuration to allow a maximum of 50 drives in a 4U configuration behind each of the two external ports on the HP Smart Array P800, the HP Smart Array E500, the HP Smart Array P411, the HP Smart Array P212 or the P812 Controller for a total of 100 drives in 4 enclosures (a single controller port incorporates four lanes for a total max throughput of 12Gb/s for SAS).
The HP 70 Modular Smart Array is an end-to-end flexible storage array, offering data availability, enhanced reliability, enhanced performance and tiered storage capability with SAS , SSD and SATA drives and investment protection. Manage your small and midrange business growing storage needs by deploying this low cost, flexible tiered storage system
The modular, scalable design of the MSA70 provides a flexible platform allowing you to buy what is needed today and purchase additional capacity as data storage needs grow, instead of making a large up-front investment. Additional drives and enclosures can be easily added as customer needs dictate without extra management charges as needs grow. For Small businesses, it is a stepping stone to simplify capacity expansion of HP ProLiant and HP Integrity Server environments to external storage without having to make the full move to SAN or NAS. For fast growing Small or Medium businesses MSA70 can scale to multiple TBytes, by adding additional drive bays. Configuration and setup is easy with HP Array Configuration Utility (ACU).
HP StorageWorks MSA70 Specs Deatail
Modular Smart Array
Direct Attached Storage Enclosure
3Gb/ps
Support 2.5" Hard Drives
Support SAS , SSD and SATA HDD
Support up to 100Tb Storage 25 X 4Tb
25 X 2.5" Hard Drive Bays
NO Hard Drive is included
2 X Redundant Power Supplies
3U Rackmount Size
Railings not included
Manufacturer Specs Sheet : Click Here
6 Months Hardware Replacement Warranty
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Hard Drive and other Options for this Storage :
External SAS Cable $30each
HP P212 Controller Card $70each
Add 300Gb 10K SAS 2.5" HDD $60each
Add 600Gb 10K SAS 2.5" HDD $90each
Add 900Gb 10K SAS 2.5" HDD $120each
Add 500Gb 7.2K SATA 2.5" HDD $60each
Add 1Tb 7.2K SATA 2.5" HDD $120each
Add 250Gb NEW SSD Drive $100each
Add 500Gb NEW SSD Drive $200each
Add 1Tb NEW SSD Drive $300each
HDD Tray $10 each
Railings $70 set
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