P40498-B21 - HPE 960GB SATA 6G RI SFF BC MV SSD

HPE P40498-B21 — 960GB SATA 6G Read Intensive SFF BC Multi-Vendor SSD

What it is

P40498-B21 is an HPE business-critical server SSD.
It’s a 960GB SATA, read-intensive, small-form-factor (2.5") drive that ships on an HPE Basic Carrier (BC) for hot-swap ProLiant/Synergy bays. “Multi-Vendor” means HPE may fulfill with equivalent approved SSDs, but the drive meets the same published performance and endurance targets.

Why buyers pick P40498-B21 (plain English)

• Affordable capacity for boot + read-heavy tiers
  A sweet spot for OS boot, VM datastores, web/apps, and general read-dominant workloads.

• Business-critical reliability
  Built and qualified for 24×7 server environments.

• Drop-in hot-swap simplicity
  Comes pre-mounted in the HPE carrier, so it slides straight into SFF bays.

• Stable long-term sourcing
  Multi-Vendor keeps supply consistent even as NAND models rotate.

60-second spec box (P40498-B21)

Capacity

• 960 GB

Interface

• SATA 6 Gb/s

Form factor / carrier

• 2.5" SFF

• HPE Basic Carrier (hot-swap)

Workload class

• Read Intensive (RI)

• Endurance class: ~0.8 DWPD range (boot / read-mostly)

Flash type (class)

• Enterprise SATA RI (TLC class)

Firmware / platform

• HPE-qualified, digitally signed firmware for ProLiant/Synergy

Warranty

• 3-year HPE warranty

Use case

• Boot SSD, read-heavy VM tiers, app/data layers, caching, general server SSD

Where it fits (and when to choose something else)

Perfect for:

• Boot drives in ProLiant servers

• Read-dominant virtualization and application workloads

• Replacing older SATA SSDs in SFF hot-swap bays

Choose something else if:

• You need heavier write endurance → pick a Mixed-Use (MU) or Write Intensive (WI) SSD

• You want higher throughput / lower latency → go SAS 12G or NVMe Gen4/Gen5

TL;DR

P40498-B21 is HPE’s 960GB SATA 6G Read-Intensive SFF SSD on Basic Carrier: a dependable, cost-efficient hot-swap server SSD for boot and read-heavy workloads in modern ProLiant platforms.