Are you looking for an enterprise-level controller to maximize performance & storage capacity? The HPE Smart Array P408i-p SR Gen 10 Controller, supporting 12 Gb/s SAS & PCIe 3.0, provides enterprise-class storage performance, reliability, security & efficiency needed to address your evolving data storage needs. This controller has eight internal SAS lanes, allowing connection to SAS or SATA drives, supports Mixed Mode operations of RAID & HBA simultaneously, & offers encryption for data-at-rest on any drive. The Smart Array P408i-p SR Gen 10 Controller is ideal for maximizing performance while supporting advanced RAID levels with 2 GB Flash-Backed Write Cache (FBWC). This controller occupies a PCIe expansion slot. The Gen 10 controllers are supported by the HPE Smart Storage Battery. The HPE Smart Storage Battery supports multiple devices & is sold separately.