HP 335921-B21 MSA20 Base Chassis SATA 12-Drive Enclosure

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 9TB per enclosure (using 750GB 1-inch SATA disk drives). Modular design allows up to 21 enclosures to be mounted in one 42U rack for a single rack storage capacity of up to 189TB of disk storage or up to 8 enclosures in an MSA1500 or a MSA1510i configuration for storage capacity of 64TB in an entry-level SAN.

MSA20 Features

• MSA20 Support for the Smart Array 6404, Smart Array 6402, Smart Array 642 and the Smart Array 6i Controllers
• Supports HP SATA 1.5Gb/s disk drives, with capacities of 250GB, 500GB & 750GB - 1 year warranty
• Total storage capacity of 9TB (with 12 HP SATA 1.5Gb/s 750GB hard drives)
• Ultra320 SCSI host connectivity
• Boot from storage - move all disks to external storage for best capacity utilization
• Redundant hot-plug power supplies and fans standard
• 3 year limited warranty (MSA20 enclosure only)
• Pre-failure warranty that covers SATA disk drives
• Serial-ATA 1.5 Gb/s - Delivering data transfer rates greater than 100MB/s
• Ultra320 (LVD) host support - Delivering compatibility with 6th generation Smart Array controllers
• MSA20 2U rack height
• A common storage platform allows for future storage consolidation to the SAN
• Hot pluggable disk drives, power supplies, and fans
• Redundant fans, and redundant power supplies
• Each MSA20 enclosure comes with dual power supplies that are sufficient to provide power to the enclosure and maintain normal operating levels.
• Integrated Environmental Monitoring - Monitors environmental conditions within the enclosure and components such as the power supply and fans
• Easy removal of parts provides better serviceability. No tools are required!
• MSA20 Provides storage capacity of up to 9TB per enclosure (using 750-GB SATA disk drives).
• Modular design allows up to 21 enclosures to be mounted in one 42U rack for a single rack storage capacity of up to 189TB of disk storage or up to 8 enclosures in an MSA1500 or a MSA1510i configuration for storage capacity of 64-TB in an entry-level SAN.