The HPE H240 Smart Host Bus Adapter is a low profile, 2 x4 internal ports Smart HBA controller that provides customers with the flexibility and speed they have come to expect from HPE. The H240 HBA is ideal for internal connectivity to, HDDs and SSDs that provides support for both 12Gb SAS and SATA drives. H240 HBA can also provide high performance for SSDs that do not require data protection. This SAS HBA is ideal for driving cost-effective and reliable scalability in today's data centers. The H240 Smart HBA controller can scale internal storage with addition of HPE 12G SAS Expander card. The H240 Smart Host Bus Adapter provides flexibility to run in HBA mode or simple RAID mode. When operating in simple RAID mode, it provides RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 5 with optional HPE Secure Encryption capabilities. Unlike the HPE Smart Array Controllers, the H240 does not offer any acceleration or support cache modules.

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Ports	Internal: 8 SAS/SATA physical links across 2 x4 internal ports
Performance	12Gb/s SAS (1200 MB/s theoretical bandwidth per physical lane) 6Gb/s SATA (600 MB/s theoretical bandwidth per physical lane) PCI Express Gen3 x8 link width
HPE Secure Encryption	HPE Secure Encryption is a Smart Array controller-based data encryption solution for ProLiant Gen9 servers that protects sensitive, mission critical data. This is an enterprise-class encryption solution for data at rest on any bulk storage attached to the HPE Smart Array controllers including data on the cache memory of the controller. HPE Secure Encryption is an optional license per server requiring encryption enablement (see Related Options for more information on the license). The solution is available for both local and remote key management mode deployments. Local Key Management Mode is focused on single server deployment where there is one Master key per controller that is managed by the user. Remote Key Management Mode is for enterprise wide deployments from just a few servers to thousands of servers.
Warranty	The warranty for this device is 1 year parts only. Warranty Upgrade Options Response - Upgrade on-site response from next business day to same day 4 hours Coverage - Extend hours of coverage from 9 hours x 5 days to 24 hours x 7 days Duration - Select duration of coverage for a period of 1, 3, or 5 years Warranty upgrade options can come in the form of Care Packs, which are sold at the HPE System level this product attaches too