HP Smart Array P222/512MB FBWC 6Gb 1-port Int/1-port Ext SAS Controller (631667-B21) (item no: GV160909091759) EOL-18/11/2016

Overview

The HPE Smart Array P222 Controller is a low profile, 6 Gb/s, PCIe 3.0, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) RAID controller that provides entry-level, storage performance, scalability, and data protection for select HP ProLiant Gen8 rack and tower servers. It features four internal and four external SAS lanes and delivers increased server uptime by providing advanced storage functionality, including online RAID level migration with flash back write cache, global online spare, and pre-failure warning.

Data Compatibility among all models of Smart Array controllers allows simple and easy migration at any time when needs for higher performance, capacity, and availability increase. Even new generations of Smart Array controllers can understand the data format of previous generations of Smart Array controllers.

What's new

• HPE Smart Array Advanced Pack 2.0 features are now part of the base features for the HPE Smart Array P222 Controller at no additional cost.
• The HPE SSD Smart Path feature improves SSD read for all RAID levels and RAID 0 write operations by optimizing the path to each SSD attached to the controller by up to 4x better performance.

Features 

Increased Performance, Scalability and Data Protection, with Reduced Initial Setup Time

• Up to 3x performance improvement over past generation, using DDR3-1333 cache memory.
• reater scalability for explosive growth with up to 4 internal and 100 external drives.
• Long term data retention with 512 MB flash back write cache (FBWC) offered as a standard feature.
  
• Support for RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, and RAID 6 and 60.
  
• New predictive spare activation for improved rebuild and maximized uptime.
  

Specifications

Data transfer rate

6Gb/s SAS per physical link

3Gb/s SATA per physical link

PCI Express Gen3

Form factor

Standard PCIe plug-in card

Ports

Internal: 4 physical links across 1 x4 port

External: 4 physical links across 1 x4 port

Cache

512MB Flash-backed write cache

RAID levels

0, 1, 10, 5, 50, 6, 60, 10 ADM

Additional features

HPE SmartCache (optional license)

Warranty

The warranty for this device is 3 years parts only. Pre-Failure Warranty: Drives attached to the Smart Array Controller and monitored under Insight Manager are supported by a Pre-Failure (replacement) Warranty.

Dimensions and weight

Dimensions (W x D x H)

19.05 x 24.13 x 5.72 cm

Weight

0.37 kg