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HPE P37005-B21 — 7.68TB SATA 6G Mixed Use SFF BC Multi-Vendor SSD

What it is

P37005-B21 is an HPE enterprise SATA SSD for ProLiant servers.
It’s a 7.68TB SATA 6Gb/s, Mixed Use (MU), 2.5" SFF drive that ships on an HPE Basic Carrier (BC) for hot-swap bays. “Multi-Vendor” means HPE may supply equivalent approved SSD models over time, while keeping the same workload class/spec range.

Why buyers pick P37005-B21 (plain English)

• Huge capacity with real endurance
  Mixed Use gives you a safer write profile than Read Intensive when the workload isn’t “mostly read.”

• Max TB per SFF bay on SATA
  7.68TB is ideal for dense all-flash tiers in SFF servers without jumping to SAS/NVMe cost.

• Hot-swap ready
  Comes pre-mounted in the HPE carrier for easy install in ProLiant bays.

• Enterprise-qualified part
  HPE firmware validation + consistent supply via Multi-Vendor sourcing.

60-second spec box (P37005-B21)

Capacity

• 7.68 TB

Interface

• SATA 6 Gb/s

Form factor / carrier

• 2.5" SFF

• HPE Basic Carrier (hot-swap)

Workload class

• Mixed Use (MU)

• Endurance class: ~3 DWPD range (balanced read/write)

Firmware / platform

• HPE-qualified, digitally signed firmware for ProLiant

Warranty

• 3-year HPE warranty

Use case

• Large VM datastores, app tiers, moderate-write databases, dense server flash pools where SATA is sufficient.

Where it fits (and when to choose something else)

Perfect for:

• ProLiant servers with SFF hot-swap bays

• Dense all-flash storage tiers needing both capacity + write tolerance

• Virtualization and general production workloads with meaningful write activity

Choose something else if:

• You’re almost entirely read-heavy → Read Intensive (RI) costs less

• You want dual-port reliability and better sustained performance → SAS 12G/24G SSDs

• You need the lowest latency / highest throughput → NVMe SSDs

TL;DR

P37005-B21 is HPE’s 7.68TB SATA 6G Mixed-Use SFF SSD on Basic Carrier:
a hot-swap enterprise SATA SSD that maximizes capacity per bay while keeping balanced endurance for real production workloads.