HPE MSA 2050 SAS DC Power LFF Storage

Introduction

Looking for affordable, high-performance shared storage? The HPE MSA 2050 SAN Storage is a flash ready system designed for affordable application acceleration ideal for small and remote office deployments. Don't let the low cost fool you, it gives you the combination of simplicity, flexibility to grow now, and advanced features you may not expect in an entry-priced array. Start small and scale as needed with any combination of solid state disks (SSD), high-performance enterprise, or lower-cost midline SAS-based drives. HPE MSA 2050 SAN Storage has been the industry-leading entry storage Fibre Channel (FC) platform for the past eight years, with nearly 500,000 systems sold worldwide. Delivers 2x higher performance^[2] than the previous generation at the same price, delivering in excess of 200,000 IOPS. It's seriously simple and affordable flash-ready storage to help you get the most performance for the lowest cost.

What's new
- Introducing new and higher capacity small form factor (SFF) and large form factor (LFF) drives.
- HPE MSA 2.4TB 12G SAS 10K SFF (2.5in) Enterprise 512e 3yr warranty hard drive; HPE MSA 12TB 12G SAS 7.2K LFF (3.5in) Midline 512e 1yr warranty hard drive.

Features

Accelerates Applications Affordably
- The HPE MSA 2050 SAN Storage performs at 200,000 IOPS delivering affordable application acceleration for small to medium-sized businesses both local and remote.
- Flexible base model delivers 2x more performance than previous generation HPE MSA 2040 SAN Storage for the same price.

Advanced Data Services With No Experience Required
- The HPE MSA 2050 SAN Storage is easy to install, easy to use, easy to maintain, no previous storage expertise required.
- Automated tiering dynamically responds to workload changes, so you don't have to.

Keep Your Business Running with Expanded Data Protection Features
- The HPE MSA 2050 SAN Storage delivers updated virtualized snapshot technology making data protection and instant recovery a snap.
- Remote replication with Fibre Channel (FC) and iSCSI supports an affordable disaster recovery solution.

Grow Flexibly Now and Into the Future
- The HPE MSA 2050 SAN Storage supports data-in-place upgrades protecting drive investments and reduces data migrations.
- Start small and scale as needed with any combination of Solid State Drives (SSDs), enterprise or midline SAS disk drives.

Storage

Storage drives installed

N

Installed storage drive type

N

Supported storage drive types

SSD

Number of storage drives supported

96

Maximum supported storage capacity

960 TB

Storage drive size

3.5"

Supported storage drive interfaces

SAS

RAID levels

1,5,6,10

Data transfer rate

12 Gbit/s

Ports & interfaces

USB connectivity

N

Host ports

4

SATA host port

Y

Design

Chassis type

Rack (2U)

Internal

Y

Product colour

Black

Performance

Device class

Small & Medium Business

System requirements

Linux operating systems supported

Y

Server operating systems supported

Windows Server 2012,Windows Server 2012 R2,Windows Server 2016

Weight & dimensions

Width

572 mm

Depth

447 mm

Height

89 mm

Weight

18.4 kg

Technical details

Sustainability certificates

RoHS