The HP Storage Works 60 Modular Smart Array provides an end-to-end flexible platform in a high capacity 2U disk drive storage enclosure supporting 3.5" SAS or Serial ATA (SATA) drives. This enclosure delivers industry-leading data performance, availability, storage density, & upgradeability to meet customers demanding & growing storage needs. This combination provides reliable external storage with built in high availability, redundancy, enhanced performance, tiered storage flexibility, lower cost, & high capacity storage that is expandable up to almost 3.6 TB of SAS storage or 6 TB of SATA storage. The modular, scalable design of the MSA60 provides an extremely flexible platform allowing a customer to buy what is needed today & purchase additional capacity as data storage needs grow, instead of making a large up-front investment. This enclosure is designed to support the 3.5" Universal form factor hard drive in either SAS or SATA. Configuration & setup is easy with HP Array Configuration Utility (ACU). The MSA60 supports direct attach storage to HP Pro Liant Servers. The MSA60 supports the cascading of shelves in a 1+3 configuration to allow a maximum of 48 drives in an 8U configuration behind each port on the Smart Array P800 controller for a total of 96 drives in 8 enclosures.