The HP Smart Array P741m is a PCI-Express (PCIe) 3.0 mezzanine card supporting direct attached and shared storage for the HP ProLiant Gen9 BladeSystem servers. It is one of the highest performing controllers in the HP Smart Array portfolio capable of supporting 12Gb/s level bandwidth and provides enterprise level reliability, connectivity, and storage performance for HP Gen9 Blade servers through its support of the latest SCSI technology and advanced RAID capabilities. The P741m can support up to 227 zoned direct attached SAS or SATA drives, tape drives, and can connect to D3600, D3700 and D6000 Disk Enclosures. In addition, the P741m can support the MSA2040 shared storage.
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Disk Drive and Enclosure Protocol Support
SAS protocol: 12Gb/s, 6Gb/s
SATA protocol: 6Gb/s
SAS Connectors 4 external 2x ports to support up to four 12Gb/s SAS Switches
SAS Port Link Rate 12Gb/s per physical link
PCIe Link Rate PCIe3 x8
Memory Bus Speed DDR3-1866MHz, 72-bit wide bus at 12.8GB/s (4 GiBytes cache module)
Physical Drives Supported Up to 227 zoned physical drives
Logical Drives Supported 64 logical drives
Memory Addressing 64-bit, supporting servers memory space greater than 4GiB (4.4GB)
RAID Support
RAID 6, 60 (Advanced Data Guarding)
RAID 5, 50 (Distributed Data Guarding)
RAID 1, 10 (Drive Mirroring)
RAID 1 ADM, 10 ADM (Advanced Data Mirroring)
RAID 0 (Striping)
Upgradeable Firmware Flashable ROM with redundant firmware images