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The HP Smart Array P411 is HP's PCI Express (PCIe) Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) RAID controller. The low profile, half height card has 8 ports and utilizes DDR2-800 memory. 'The P411 is ideal for RAID 0/1, 5, 1+0 & 5+0 and can be upgraded with the 512MB battery-backed write cache (BBWC) or 512MB/1G Flash Backed Write Cache (FBWC) module and Smart Array Advanced via license key for RAID 6 &, 6 +0.
The SA-P411 Controller supports up to 100 drives. Additional drives can be supported with cache and connection to an expander
The SA-P411 Controller supports the HP 60 Modular Smart Array,HP 70 Modular Smart Array, HP D2600 Disk Enclosure, HP D2700 Disk Enclosure, and HP 600 Modular Disk System.
Seamless upgrades to current or next generation HP high performance and high capacity Serial Attached SCSI Smart Array controllers
6Gb/s SAS technology delivers high performance and data bandwidth and contains full compatibility with 3Gb/s SATA technology.
x8 PCI Express host interface technology delivers high performance and data bandwidth up to 2 GB/s maximum bandwidth.
Addition of the battery or flash backed cache upgrade enables array expansion, logical drive extension, RAID migration, and stripe size migration.
Additionally, Smart Array Advanced Pack License key enables RAID 6 (ADG), 6+0, Advanced Capacity Expansion, Mirror Splitting and Recombining in Offline Mode, Drive Erase, Performance Optimization-Degraded Reads and Read Coalescing (VOD)
Mix-and-match SAS and SATA hard drives, lets you deploy drive technology as needed to fit your computing environment.
Support for SAS tape products.
Software consistency among all Smart Array family products: Array Configuration Utility, Systems Insight Manager, Array Diagnostic Utility (ADU) and SmartStart.
256 MB 40-bit wide DDR2-800 MHz cache module standard (with optional battery upgrade)
Low-profile PCI Express form factor - ships with a full size bracket for deployment in either a low-profile or full sized slot
6Gb/s SAS (600MB/s bandwidth per physical link)
8x 6Gb/s SAS physical links (compatible with 3Gb/s SATA)
256MB 40-bit wide DDR2-800MHz cache upgradeable to 512MB 72-bit wide DDR2-800MHz battery-backed write cache or 512MB / 1G 72-bitwide DDR2 flash backed write cache provides up to 4.2 GB/s maximum bandwidth
Write-back caching (with BBWC or FBWC)