A7564A - HP StorageWorks MSA 1500 Hard Drive Array Fibre Channel Controller RAID Supported 14 x Total Bays Fibre Channel 2U Rack-mountable

Disk arrays provide superior storage solutions for mission critical applicationsHP data protection solutionsWhatever your operating system, HP also delivers end-to-end solutions, including a complete array of services, support, and consulting.Whatever your environment or business needs, you have a number of industry-leading HP Surestore disk array solutions from which to choose. Whether you're looking to keep your mission critical applications available during routine backup operations and planned downtime, or through unplanned infrastructure failures, let disk array solutions work for you. And whatever your operating system, HP also delivers end-to-end solutions, including a complete array of services, support, and consulting.The MSA1500 is a 2 GB Fibre Channel SAN attached 2U controller shelf supports SATA and SCSI disk enclosures. This combination provides low cost, high capacity storage that is expandable up to 24 TB.The HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Array 1500 is a Fibre Channel SAN attached 2U controller shelf that connects to HP StorageWorks Serial ATA (SATA) and/or SCSI disk enclosures. Providing customers with a low cost, high capacity storage solution, this solution has been designed as a hardware foundation for which future solutions can be designed and implemented for investment protection. The MSA1500 is perfect for those customers looking for less expensive storage solutions using HP SATA enclosures to store data that doesn't require a high degree of I/O performance and/or is viewed as non-critical to business operations. The MSA1500 with up-to-eight attached SATA enclosures can provide the customer with up to 24 TB (96 - 250 GB SATA disk drives) of raw capacity. If the business needs SCSI reliability then attach up-to-four SCSI enclosures for a raw capacity of 8 TB (using 56 - 146 GB SCSI disks).