HP MSA50 manual Product Highlights

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QuickSpecs

HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Array 50 Enclosure

Product Highlights

Customer Benefits

Higher Performance

The Serialized nature of SAS combined with the highest spindle count

 

per U of Rack Space

per U of rack space allows the MSA50 to achieve the greatest I/Os per

 

 

second when compared to parallel SCSI.

 

Price Sensitivity

The MSA50 will be the first SAS/SATA SFF JBOD product that will offer

 

 

a level of availability sufficient for the Enterprise and a price structure

 

 

that is attractive to SMB.

 

Investment Protection

The MSA50 has the future potential to upgrade from 3GB to 6GB SAS,

 

 

as well as mix and match SAS or SATA drives within the same

 

 

enclosure. Thus making technology transitions simple and cost

 

 

effective.

 

Reduced Spares

Universal SFF drives and similar physical characteristics between SAS

 

Inventory

and SATA drives allow customers to mix/match SAS and SATA in the

 

 

same enclosure and allow the same drives to be used in servers and

 

 

external storage.

 

 

 

Key Features

Features of the MSA50 include:

 

SFF (SAS/SATA) support – Delivering data transfer rates up 3Gb/s for SAS and 1.5Gb/s for

 

SATA

 

 

 

NOTE: SAS/SATA performance requires a compatible SAS controller. This is noted in the product

 

documentation.

 

 

 

1U rack height.

 

 

 

Supports up to 10 SFF SAS and/or SATA Universal hard disk drives.

 

Provides storage capacity of up to 1.4TB per enclosure (using 146GB 10K disk drives)

 

Cascadable 1+1 for up to 20 spindles in a 2U configuration or 2.8TB.

 

Modular design allows the MSA50 to be used in any storage configuration from JBOD (Just

 

a Bunch of Disks) to Smart Array storage enclosures.

 

A common storage platform allows the potential for future storage consolidation to the SAN.

 

Universal SFF SAS drive carrier – provides better cooling and reliability for by providing

 

increased air flow through the storage unit.

 

Hot pluggable disk drives, fans and power supplies.

 

Field replaceable fans, I/O Module and mid plane

 

Easy removal of parts provides better serviceability. No tools are required!

Upgradeability

Potential Upgrade path for a HP StorageWorks MSA50 is as easy as swapping out the I/O Module

 

on the back of the unit. The unit must be powered down to replace the I/O Module.

 

 

 

 

Mix and Match of Hard A benefit of SAS and SATA is the use of a common physical connection which allows for both

Drive Types drive types to be mixed together on the same backplane. This common backplane allows customers the choice of using SAS and/or SATA and helps deliver HP's message of industry leading innovation, reliability, adaptability, and performance by allowing customers to choose the reliability of SAS or the lower cost of SATA for tiered storage.

Hot Pluggable

Hot pluggable technology is designed into drives, fans and redundant power supplies. Hot

 

pluggable components can be replaced without powering down the storage system or stopping I/O

 

operations. This feature significantly enhances data availability.

 

 

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