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An Ultra320 intelligent array controller designed for entry-level, hardware-based fault tolerance for protection of OS, applications, and logs |
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Smart Array controllers increase customer value generation after generation with data consistency and upgradeability.
Compatibility among all models of Smart Array Controllers means customers can instantly upgrade their Smart Array products to get to higher performance, capacity and availability. Unlike competitive products, successive generations of Smart Array products understand the data format of other Smart Array controllers, providing investment protection for your HP storage solution.
Smart Array controller's availability features lowers the ProLiant servers total cost of ownership with increased server uptime by providing advanced storage functionality through:
- Online RAID Level Migration (between any RAID level)
- Online Capacity Expansion
- Logical Drive Capacity Extension
- Universal Hard Drive - form factor is for use across multiple HP servers, disk enclosures and storage systems. With compatibility across many enterprise platforms, you are free to deploy and re-deploy these drives to quickly deliver increased storage capacity, migrate data between systems, and easily manage spare drives
- Pre-Failure Warranty means HP Insight Manager not only reports when a drive is going to fail but allows replacement of failing drives prior to actual failure. For complete details, consult the HP Support Center or refer to your HP Server documentation
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Features offer detection of possible failures before they occur, allowing preventive action to be taken:
- S.M.A.R.T.: Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology first developed at HP detects possible hard disk failure before it occurs, allowing replacement of the component before failure occurs
- Drive Parameter Tracking monitors drive operational parameters, predicting failure and notifying the administrator
- Dynamic Sector Repairing continually performs background surface scans on the hard disk drives during inactive periods and automatically remaps bad sectors, ensuring data integrity
- Environment Tracking for External Storage System monitors
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Minimizes downtime, reconstructs data, and facilitates a quick recovery from drive failure
- Recovery ROM: This new feature provides a unique redundancy feature that protects from a ROM image corruption. A new version of firmware can be flashed to the ROM while the controller maintains the last known working version of firmware. If the firmware becomes corrupt, the controller will revert back to the previous version of firmware and continue operating. This reduces the risk of flashing firmware to the controller
- On-Line Spares: Up to two spare drives can be installed prior to drive failure. If a failure occurs, recovery begins with an On-Line Spare and data is reconstructed automatically. (Note: On-Line Spares can only be used with RAID level 1, 1+0, and 5)
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