HPE Smart Array E208i-a SR Gen10 AROC 2-Port

The HPE Smart Array E208i-a SR Gen10 AROC 2-Port installs in HPE ProLiant Gen10 servers and provides 2 ports. This is an HBA, not a RAID card: it presents the disks straight through to the operating system with no array layer. That is precisely what ZFS, Ceph and any system that manages its own redundancy need — a hardware RAID layer only gets in the way there. A compatibility detail that costs money to get wrong: an AROC card (which mounts in the board’s dedicated slot) and a PCIe card are not interchangeable, and each generation has its own AROC slot. Match your server generation against the compatibility list above before ordering. The card ships with its cable and cache battery, tested on the same generation.