- 6 Gbps SAS technology delivers up to 600 Mbps per physical link
- 6 Gbps SATA technology delivers up to 600 Mbps for directly attached SATA drives
- Mix-and-match SAS and SATA drives
- Deploy drive technology as needed to fit the computing environment
- Support for SAS tape drives, SAS tape autoloaders and SAS tape libraries
- Recovery ROM protects against ROM corruption
- Smart Array PCIe mezzanine card that connects to a HPE 6 Gbps SAS BL switch through the c-class enclosure high-speed mid-plane supporting shared SAS storage
- Flash Backed Write Cache (FBWC) provides indefinite write cache data retention in the case of unexpected power outage
The HPE Smart Array P721m Controller is a PCI-Express (PCIe) 3.0 mezzanine card supporting direct attached SAS Storage. It provides reliability, connectivity, and storage performance for HP ProLiant Gen8 server blades through its support of the latest SAS technology and advanced RAID capabilities. HPE Smart Array Advanced Pack (SAAP) 2.0 features, such as dual domain, RAID 6, 60, Advanced Data Mirroring is included in the P721m.