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Each component in the different layers of the system architecture serves a distinct function that higher-level
components rely on. These properties are discussed in more detail in the following sections, starting from low
level components.
Physical disks
: Physical disks are the most granular physical components in the data path of the StoreEasy
system architecture. Their main purpose is to provide persistence of data across power cycles. StoreEasy
supports both hard drives (HDD) and solid-state drives (SSD) in both large form factor (LFF) and small form
factor (SFF) as standard storage options.
Types of Drives
: The supported drives in the StoreEasy 1X60 systems for the internal storage is determined
by the specific StoreEasy platform being deployed. When adding external storage, the types and number of
drives supported is dependent upon the enclosure purchased. For specifics, see
with the supported specific hard disk drives and solid state drives details.
Drive interfaces have two distinct popular interfaces available in the HPE StoreEasy 1X60 systems.
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Serial ATA (SATA)
: Used when performance is not the top consideration and your business requires a
cost-effective, high-capacity storage for file serving
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Serial-attached SCSI (SAS)
: Have greater performance than SATA disks, SAS disk drives deliver the
speed, reliability, and high availability that file services and storage require
Hard disk drives (HDD) are classified by the three different classes and types of workloads:
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Entry
: Low workload (I/O) and generally used for boot and backup solutions. This type of hard disk drive is
only available on certain HPE systems. Interface type is SATA 6 Gb.
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Midline
: Medium workload (I/O) and generally used for high capacity and high availability storage:
Backup, archive, and file services. Interface types are SAS 12 Gb and SATA 6 Gb in both SFF and LFF
formats.
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Enterprise
: Mission critical and high workload (I/O) and generally used by Email, Enterprise Resource
Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and databases. Interface type is SAS 12 Gb
for both SFF and LFF formats.
Solid State Drives (SSD) are classified by three different workload types:
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Read Intensive (RI)
: Selected for Boot or swap, Read caching, Web Servers, Bulk storage, Active
archiving, or Analytics.
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Mixed-Use (MU)
: Selected when a balance is needed for both Business intelligence and Business
transaction processing.
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Write Intensive (WI)
: Select for OLTP or Financial, Business intelligence, Big data analytics, Virtualization,
Scientific, Collaboration infrastructure, and Enterprise business.
Solid State Drives come in the following drive interface types: 12 Gb SAS (SFF), 6 Gb SATA (SFF, M.2, and
enablement kits) or PCIe/NVMe (SFF, Add-in and Mezz cards). Currently HPE StoreEasy 1X60 systems only
support the 12 Gb SAS or 6 Gb SATA options.
RAID Arrays
: The StoreEasy 1X60 systems use the P-Class HPE Smart Array controllers to combine
multiple drives connected to the controller into a hardware-based redundant array of inexpensive drives
(RAID). The advantage of using a RAID configured array is that you increase capacity, performance, security
and reliability based on the type of controller and level of RAID deployed.
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