- Consistent configuration and management
- Pre-failure alerts
- Mix-and-match SAS and SATA drives
- Recovery ROM protects against ROM corruption
- Power efficiency
- Rapid rebuild
The HPE Smart Array P840ar controller is a flexible controller that provides enterprise-class storage performance, increased internal scalability, and data protection. It features 16 internal physical links and delivers increased server uptime by providing advanced storage functionality, including online RAID level migration between any RAID levels with flash-backed write cache (FBWC), global online spare, and pre-failure alert. This controller supports 16 drives without need for the SAS expander card providing point-to-point connectivity to SSDs for lower latency.