HP Enterprise Hewlett Packard Enterprise StorageWorks MSA20 Storage Enclosure RAID controller

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.

• 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.

• U320 host connectivity for support behind 6th generation Smart Array controllers. Simple configuration and setup with the HP Array Configuration Utility (ACU). Easy to maintain and troubleshoot with industry standard management tools including HP Systems Insight Manager