AH303A HP SC44Ge Host Bus Adapter for Integrity Servers
The HP SC44Ge Host Bus Adapter provides customers with the flexibility and speed they have come to expect from HP. The SC44Ge Host Bus Adapter is ideal for basic RAID (0, 1) and low cost connectivity to tape and HDDs. This adapter supports both 3G SAS and 1.5 G SATA devices. Providing up to 2 Gb/s maximum bandwidth, this HBA provides nearly four times the speed of a dual channel U320 SCSI adapters. The HP SC44Ge Host Bus Adapter has been thoroughly tested and integrated into many of the HP Integrity servers. The SC44Ge supports both a 1 x4 internal connection and a 1 x4 external connection.
*Requires 1 x PCI-E slot
Key Features
* SAS technology delivers high performance and data bandwidth up to 3 Gbps per physical link
* Mix-and-match SAS and SATA hard drives, lets you deploy drive technology as needed to fit your computing environment (ProLiant systems only)
* Support for SAS tape products
* PCIe x8 (2.5 Gb/s bandwidth)
* PCI Express x8 capable
Ports
* Eight (8) SAS physical links distributed across 1 x4 internal SFF-8484 and 1x4 external SFF-8470 connectors
o Provides the ability to support up to 8 devices in a RAID configuration (additional drives supported through expander technology) or 3.6TB of SAS storage when connected to an MSA70 external drive enclosure with (25) 146GB drives (HP-UX and OpenVMS only).
Performance
HP's High Performance Architecture sets new boundaries for industry performance expectations!
* Transfer rate: 3 Gbps SAS, 1.5 Gb/s SATA (bandwidth per physical link)
* 24 Gbps total available bandwidth (8 physical links x 3Gbps)
* PCIe x8 (2.5 Gb/s bandwidth)
Capacity Given the increasing need for high performance and rapid capacity expansion, the SC44Ge SAS HBA with RAID offers:
* Eight 3 Gbps SAS physical links supporting up to 2 simultaneous x4 Wide SAS Ports
* Up to 3.6TB of storage per PCI slot of SAS storage when connected to an MSA70 external drive enclosure with (25) 146GB drives (HP-UX and OpenVMS only).
Fault Tolerance
Keeps data available and server running while a failed drive is being replaced (ProLiant models only)
* Drive Mirroring (RAID 1): This allocates half of the drive array to data and the other half to mirrored data, providing two copies of every file.
* HP Integrity Rx 2660
* HP Integrity Rx 3600
* HP Integrity Rx 6600
* HP Integrity Rx 7640
* HP Integrity Rx 8640
* HP Superdome sx2000 (PCI-e models only)
System must have a PCI-e slot
Supported OS's
OpenVMS V8.3-1H1
HP-UX 11iv2 and 11iv3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server