The HPE H244br Smart Host Bus Adapter comes in a Flexible Smart SAS HBA form factor that provides a reliable, high performing 12G/s SAS connectivity to the internal drives in the ProLiant BL460c Gen9 server. The H244br Smart Host Bus Adapter provides flexibility to run as an HBA mode or simple RAID mode. When operating in simple RAID mode, it provides RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 5 with optional HPE Secure Encryption capabilities. Unlike the HPE Smart Array Controllers, the H244br does not offer any acceleration or support cache modules.
Disk Drive Interface
12Gb/s SAS (Serial Attached SCSI)
6Gb/s SATA (Serial ATA)
Server Interface
x8 PCIe 3.0 provides 8GB/s maximum bandwidth
Cache Memory
None
Logical Drives Supported
64
Host Memory Addressing
64-bit, supporting servers memory space greater than 4GB
RAID Support
RAID 1 (mirroring) and RAID 0 (striping)
Other
Upgradeable firmware with recovery ROM Online drive flash (with SAS drives)
Key Features
- Storage interface (SAS/SATA)
- o Internal: 2 SAS/SATA physical links across 2 x1 internal ports
- o 12Gb/s SAS, 6Gb/s SATA technology
- o Mix-and-match SAS and SATA drives to the same controller
- o Support for SAS tape drives, SAS tape autoloaders and SAS tape libraries
- x8 PCIe 3.0 provides 8GB/s maximum bandwidth
- RAID 0, 1
- RAID or HBA mode
- Legacy and UEFI boot operation
- Up to 2 physical drives
- Up to 64 logical drives
- HPE Secure Encryption (optional license)
- Seamless upgrades to and from other HPE Smart Array controllers
- PCI Express flexible card
- o Dimensions: 5.3 x 3.6 x 1.2 in (13.46 x 9.04 x 3.12 cm)
Server Support
- HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen9
- HPE ProLiant XL450 Gen9
