Enterprises with direct attach SAS storage who want an entry-level RAID solution for file/print servers, domain controllers, and applications servers.

The HP Smart Array P222 Controller is a low profile, 6 Gb/s, PCIe 3.0, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) RAID controller that provides entry-level, storage performance, scalability, and data protection for select HP ProLiant Gen8 rack and tower servers. It features four internal and four external SAS lanes and delivers increased server uptime by providing advanced storage functionality, including online RAID level migration with flash back write cache, global online spare, and pre-failure warning. Data Compatibility among all models of Smart Array controllers allows simple and easy migration at any time when needs for higher performance, capacity, and availability increase.

Even new generations of Smart Array controllers can understand the data format of previous generations of Smart Array controllers.

What’s new
– HP Smart Array Advanced Pack 2.0 features are now part of the base features for the HP Smart Array P222 Controller at no additional cost.
– With up to 4x better SSD read performance, HP SSD Smart Path intelligently chooses the optimum path to the SSD and accelerates reads for all RAID levels and RAID 0 writes.

Features

Increased performance, scalability and data protection, with reduced initial setup time
– Up to 3x performance improvement over past generation, using DDR3-1333 cache memory
– Greater scalability for explosive growth with up to 4 internal; 100 drives external
– Long term data retention with 512MB flash back write cache (FBWC) offered as a standard feature
– Support for RAID 0, 1, 10, 5, 50, and RAID 6 and 60
– New predictive spare activation for improved rebuild and maximized uptime