Manage your small and midrange business growing storage needs by deploying the 6 Gb SAS low cost, flexible tiered external storage system. It is ideal for small application environments in SMBs, remote offices and departmental locations as well as tier 2 or 3 storage for enterprise customers. The 6 Gb SAS enclosure - Large Form Factor (LFF) D2600 with 12 drive bays offers modular solution to simplify capacity expansion of HPE ProLiant server environments to external storage without having to make the full move to SAN or NAS. This allows you to buy what is needed today and purchase additional capacity as data storage needs grow.

Affordable, low cost storage: Modular platform provides investment protection and by purchasing only what is needed today, allows for growth as storage requirements evolve. Buying storage only when needed simplifies planning and relieves budget pressures. Enterprise-class dual-port SAS or archival-class SATA drives as the need and budget dictates.

Flexible/scalable: Grow storage capacity easily by attaching up to four D2600 enclosures from a single controller port, for expansion of up to 8 enclosures or 96 drives, allowing for room to grow as storage demands increase. Flexibility to mix and match SAS and SATA drives in the same enclosure.

High performance 6 Gb SAS host connectivity: 6 Gb SAS host connectivity enables a higher data transfer rate. SAS disk enclosure support for BladeSystems utilizing the HPE 6 Gb SAS BL switch. Since storage is contained within the rack, latency is reduced as data does not travel over large distances.