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Eight external SAS lanes across one external SAS port and a 2GB flash-backed write cache (FBWC) define the 804381-B21, the HPE Smart Array P408e-m SR Gen10 (8 External Lanes/2GB Cache) 12G SAS Mezzanine Controller, for drives attached outside the blade.
It connects the ProLiant BL460c Gen10 server blade to HPE MSA 1040, MSA 1050, MSA 2040 and MSA 2050 SAN Storage, and to the K2Q28A HPE D6020 Enclosure with Dual I/O Modules. SAS tape drives, tape autoloaders and tape libraries are supported as well.
The interface is 12Gb/s SAS and 6Gb/s SATA over PCI Express 3.0 x8, with RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60, 1 ADM and 10 ADM, up to 238 physical drives and up to 64 logical drives. SmartCache and Secure Encryption are optional licenses, and the HPE 12W Smart Storage Battery, P01363-B21, is ordered separately. Controllers for other storage layouts can be found in HPE server interface cards.
| Part number | 804381-B21 |
| Name | HPE Smart Array P408e-m SR Gen10 (8 External Lanes/2GB Cache) 12G SAS Mezzanine Controller |
| External lanes | 8 |
| Write cache | 2GB flash-backed (FBWC) |
| Drive interfaces | 12Gb/s SAS, 6Gb/s SATA |
| Host link | PCI Express 3.0 x8 |
| RAID | 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60, 1 ADM, 10 ADM |
| Drives | up to 238 physical, 64 logical |
| Form factor | mezzanine |
| Battery | HPE 12W Smart Storage Battery P01363-B21, ordered separately |
| Enclosures | HPE MSA 1040, 1050, 2040, 2050; HPE D6020 |
| Compatible with | HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen10 server blade |
