The HP StorageWorks 20 Modular Smart Array Enclosure (MSA20) is a SATA disk drive storage enclosure with Ultra320 SCSI host connectivity. These enclosures deliver industry-leading availability, storage density, and upgradeability to meet customers' demanding and growing storage needs. The MSA20 delivers the ideal mix of low-cost and high capacity, for minimum I/O workloads such as reference data, archiving, and disk-to-disk backup. The MSA20 provides storage capacity of up to 12 TB per enclosure (using 1 TB SATA disk drives). The HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Array family delivers simple, affordable storage technology to meet today's demanding and growing IT needs. These storage solutions offer the best price/performance and best price/availability features for direct attach environments, small clusters, workgroups and entry-level SAN environments. Each solution is designed to be easy to deploy, secure, and reduce management costs, while driving rapid return on investment.
Features
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Affordable Capacity: The Modular Smart Array 20 cabinet supports up to twelve 1-inch SATA hard drives, for a maximum of 12 TB of storage capacity using HP 1 TB SATA hard drives. Support for Serial-ATA 250 GB, 500 GB, 750 GB and 1 TB drives allows up to 12 TB of raw storage capacity in a 2U enclosure.
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Protect your data: Combined with StorageWorks Storage Mirroring (OVSM) the MSA20 is ideal for host based replication.
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Data Protection: 128MB Battery backed write cache with 72hr battery life; Integrated Smart Array technology to minimize drive rebuild time; Support for RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, & RAID 6 with Advanced Data Guarding (ADG)
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Easy deployment and management: U320 host connectivity for support behind 6th generation Smart Array controllers; Simple configuration and setup with HP's Array Configuration Utility (ACU); Easy to maintain and troubleshoot with industry standard management tools including HP Systems Insight Manager
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Investment protection: U320 host connectivity; Universal serial-ATA disk technology; Common configuration interface from generation to generation with HP's Array Configuration Utility (ACU)
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High Availability features: Each MSA20 enclosure comes with dual power supplies that are sufficient to provide power to the enclosure and maintain normal operating levels
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Integrated environmental monitoring: Monitors environmental conditions within the enclosure and components such as the power supply and fans.
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