Online Management
Features
Online Capacity Expansion (with BBWC upgrade)
Advanced Capacity Expansion (with BBWC and SAAP license key)
Online RAID Level Migration (with BBWC upgrade)
Online Stripe Size Migration (with BBWC upgrade)
Mirror splitting and recombining (with SAAP license key)
Unlimited Global Online Spares Assignment
User Selectable Expand and Rebuild Priority
User Selectable RAID Level and Stripe Size
User Selectable Read and Write Cache Sizes
Ports
Eight (8) SAS physical links distributed across 1 internal x4/1 external x4 wide port connectors.
Performance
HP's High Performance Architecture sets new boundaries of industry performance expectations!
6Gb/s SAS
x8 6Gb/s SAS physical links (compatible with 3G SATA)
256 MB DDR2-800 battery-backed cache provides up to 4.2 GB/s maximum bandwidth.
x8 5G PCI Express host interface provides 4 GB/s maximum bandwidth.
MIPS 32-bit Processor
Read ahead caching
Write-back caching (with battery-backed write cache upgrade)
Native Command Queuing
Native Command Queuing (NCQ) is a technology designed to increase performance of SATA hard disk drives
by allowing the individual hard disk to internally optimize the order in which received read and write
commands are executed. This can reduce the amount of unnecessary going back-and-forth on the drive's
heads, resulting in increased performance for workloads where multiple simultaneous read/write requests
are outstanding, most often occurring in server or storage-type applications. Without NCQ the drive has to
process and complete one command at a time. For NCQ to be enabled, it must be supported and turned on
in the controller and in the hard drive itself.
NOTE:
Please see the SATA Hard Drive QuickSpecs for specific SATA hard drive capacities that support NCQ:
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/11940_div/11940_div.html
QuickSpecs
HP Smart Array P212 Controller
Standard Features
DA - 13203 Worldwide — Version 24 — September 10, 2013
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