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SAS Enterprise drives provide horsepower and reliability for mission-critical applications SAS Midline drives provide economic reliability and capacity for low I/O applications. |
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- SAS Midline and SAS Enterprise drives provide the highest reliability within the hard drive portfolio. HP's rigorous attention provides you with the peace of mind you need.
- Prior to release into production, HP's reliability demonstration testing process ensures that drives perform to specified reliability standards.
- Throughout the lifecycle of a drive, HP periodically monitors the quality of outgoing stock. If outgoing drives perform outside specified reliability parameters, HP will cover demand through equivalent products from other suppliers.
- If reliability concerns occur at a customer site, HP's formal escalation process will drive timely closure of the issue.
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- HP drives undergo an intense qualification process that eliminates data integrity problems, firmware and O/S incompatibilities and other causes of data corruption or premature failure.
- All drive firmware is specific to our drives and is designed to maximize both functionality and compatibility.
- All drives are proven to perform in the HP systems for which they were designed.
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- HP's universal drive strategy means drives are compatible with past generations. This allows you to leverage your current drives as your storage needs grow.
- SAS gives you the flexibility to install other SAS or SATA drives or a combination of both in the same enclosure.
- In addition, 6Gbps SAS drives may be mixed with traditional 3Gbps SAS drives, or 1.5/3G SATA drives, so you don't have to change your whole environment all at once.
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- Many customers have a variety of IT environments. HP'S portfolio of SAS drives contains various kinds of drives to fit the multitude of needs that exist in your organization.
- SAS Midline drives are a moderately priced solution for customers requiring high capacity drives for low I/O (<40%) environments, such as disk backup, archival, or reference applications.
- If you require maximum reliability and performance, SAS Enterprise will provide you with a state of the art design for mission-critical, near 100% I/O applications, such as, large databases, email, ERP, and CRM.
- 15K RPM SAS Enterprise drives will give you the horsepower you need to run your near 24X7, high I/O applications with confidence, 10K RPM drives are a lower-power, more economical option for enterprise environments.
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