- 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 is a PCI-Express (PCIe) 3.0 mezzanine card supporting direct attached SAS storage for the HPE ProLiant Gen8 BladeSystem servers. It is one of the highest performing controllers in the HPE 6 Gbps SAS portfolio and provides new levels of reliability, connectivity, and storage performance for HPE Gen8 Blade servers through its support of the SCSI technology and advanced RAID capabilities.