Ports & interfaces
| PCI Card form factor |
Half-height (low-profile) |
| External mini-SAS ports |
1 |
| Host interface |
PCI Express x8 |
| Internal mini-SAS ports |
1 |
Performance
| Sustained data transfer rate (native) |
300 MB/s |
| Internal memory |
256 MB |
Smart Array P212/256, 300 MBps, PCI Express, SCSI (SAS), 256MB ECC, 360g
The HP Smart Array P212 is HP's entry level PCI Express (PCIe) Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) RAID controller. The Low Profile, Half Height card has 8 ports and utilizes DDR2-266 memory. The P212 is ideal for RAID 0/1, 1+0 and can be upgraded with the 256MB battery-backed write cache (BBWC) module for RAID 5, 5+0.
Entry Level Performance.
4 internal ports/4 external ports of 3Gb Serial Attached SCSI (SAS). x8 PCI-Express I/O connector. DDR-2/266 memory. 256MB, and Battery-Backed Write Cache (BBWC) upgrade option.
Reliable.
Standard RAID 0,1, 1+0. RAID 5, 5+0 support with 256MB Cache.
Flexible.
Supports SAS and SATA disk drives.
Manageable.
Online Drive Flash. Remote monitoring and configuration. Mirror Splitting and recombining.