HP Enterprise Smart Array Controllers
Are you looking for a controller that can interconnect drives that are linked externally and comes with a reasonable price yet enterprise-level performance? An affordable storage solution with enterprise-class reliability, support for RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10, as well as software-defined storage, is provided by the HPE Smart Array E208e-p SR Gen10 Controller.
This controller, which supports 12 Gb/s SAS and PCIe 3.0, is available from HPE (SDS). This controller has eight external SAS lanes, which makes it possible to connect to SAS or SATA drives that are housed in an external disk enclosure. In addition to that, it supports concurrent RAID and HBA operations in Mixed Mode and offers encryption for data that is resting on any disk. This controller is inserted into a PCIe expansion slot during the installation process.