Smart carriersHPE Hard Drives with smart carriers are designed to provide an interface to communicate critical status and management information. System status LED icons and a spinning activity ring reflecting the data-writing process notify users of the current system status. A blue LED located behind the handle can be activated remotely to guide users to a specific drive tray, while a do-not-remove icon positioned on the tray's eject button lights up to warn users when the removal of the drive would cause data loss.
Only those drives whose performance is suitable for an enterprise environment are selected through the HP qualification process and are labeled "best-in-class." All drives are proven to be reliable and tuned for optimum performance in the HP equipment for which they were designed.
SAS enables one system design to deploy either SAS or SATA devices. This enables a flexible solution in offering a choice in storage devices based on what attributes are required