StorageWorks Modular Smart Array

HP recognizes storage is at the foundation of an adaptive IT infrastructure, a safeguard for business information. To achieve the full impact of storage on your business you must optimize its attributes. Enter the HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Array (MSA) family, a product family leveraging our award-winning Smart Array technology. Built on industry standards to ensure compatibility, easeof-use, and affordability this advanced family of products and services allows you to deploy reliable solutions today, while enabling future growth and change. **The MSA family is comprised of three products, the Modular Smart Array 1000 (MSA1000), the Modular Smart Array 500 (MSA500), and the Modular Smart Array 30 (MSA30)**. Enhancing the MSA family are the HP ProLiant packaged clusters with Modular Smart Array. These products bring powerful, high-end storage capabilities and benefits to the mainstream, while maintaining the simplicity and affordability of traditional direct attach storage (DAS). Here is a **[detailed read](https://tekmart.co.za/t-blog/what-you-should-know-about-replacement-msa2-msa2000-lff-sas-disk-drives-in-your-data-center-storage-systems/)** on the replacement drives and what you should know on their system specific requirements on these MSA arrays **Figure 1: A sample representation of an HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Array (MSA 70 Storage unit (2u) ; replacement drives of which we stock at Tekmart Africa.**