- Storage interface (SAS/SATA)
- 8 physical links across 2 x4 external ports
- 12Gb/s SAS, 6Gb/s SATA technology
- Mix-and-match SAS and SATA drives to the same controller
- Support for SAS tape drives, SAS tape autoloaders and SAS tape libraries
- PCI Express Gen3 x8 link
- RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, 6, 60, 10 ADM (Advanced Data Mirroring)
- Legacy and UEFI boot operation
- Up to 200 physical drives
- Up to 64 logical drives
- Rapid Parity Initialization (RPI)
- Rapid rebuild
- Drive Erase
- Performance Optimization-Degraded Reads and Read Coalescing
- Power efficiency
- Seamless upgrades to and from other HPE Smart Array controllers
- Recovery ROM to protect against controller ROM corruption
- Low-profile standard PCI Express plug-in card
The Smart Array P431 Controller HPE Smart Array P431 Controller is a low profile, PCIe3 x8, 12Gb/s capable Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) RAID controller that provides enterprise class storage performance, increased external scalability, and data protection for select HPE and ProLiant Gen8 rack tower servers. It features eight external physical links and delivers increased server uptime by providing advanced storage functionality, including online RAID level migration (between any RAID levels) with flash back write cache (FBWC), global online spare, and pre-failure warning.