Physical drive types

The sixth generation of HPE StoreEasy 1000 model determines the physical drive type and their form factor for internal storage enclosures. The external drive enclosure model (JBOD) and the Smart Array controller to which it is connected determines the physical drive types. See External drive enclosures for information on the supported physical drives and their external drive enclosure models.

Hard disk drives (HDD) are classified by the following workload types:

  • Midline: Medium workload (I/O) for high capacity and high availability storage, including backup, archive, and file services. The interface types used for this class are SAS 12Gb and SATA 6Gb in both SFF and LFF formats.

  • Enterprise: Mission critical, demanding workload (I/O) for email, enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and databases. The interface type for this class is SAS 12Gb for both SFF and LFF formats.

Solid-state drives (SSD) are classified by the following workload types:

  • Read Intensive (RI): For boot/swap, read caching, web servers, bulk storage, active archiving, or analytics.

  • Mixed-Use (MU): When a balance is needed for both read-intensive and write-intensive workloads, including use cases like business intelligence and business transaction processing.

  • Write Intensive (WI): For online transaction processing (OLTP) used for financial, business intelligence, big data analytics, virtualization, scientific, collaboration infrastructure, and enterprise business.

The sixth generation of HPE StoreEasy 1000 model supports SAS 12Gb and SATA 6Gb interface types for SSD.