P40510-B21 - HPE 960GB SAS 12G MU SFF BC Value SAS MV SSD

HPE P40510-B21 — 7.68TB SAS 12G Read Intensive SFF BC Value SAS Multi-Vendor SSD

What it is

P40510-B21 is an HPE enterprise server SSD.
It’s a 7.68TB SAS 12Gb/s, Read Intensive (RI), 2.5" SFF drive that ships on an HPE Basic Carrier (BC) for hot-swap ProLiant and Synergy bays. “Value SAS” = cost-optimized enterprise SAS, and “Multi-Vendor” means HPE may supply equivalent approved SSD models over time while keeping the same published class/spec.

Why buyers pick P40510-B21 (plain English)

• Huge SSD capacity per SFF bay
  7.68TB lets you build dense, all-flash tiers without moving to NVMe pricing.

• Read-intensive sweet spot
  Ideal for boot mirrors, read-heavy VM datastores, VDI, content, and caching layers.

• SAS reliability + dual-port path
  Better HA story than SATA in many enterprise server/storage designs.

• Hot-swap ready
  Comes pre-mounted in the HPE carrier — slides straight into SFF ProLiant bays.

60-second spec box (P40510-B21)

Capacity

• 7.68 TB

Interface

• SAS 12 Gb/s (dual-port capable)

Form factor / carrier

• 2.5" SFF

• HPE Basic Carrier (hot-swap)

Workload class

• Read Intensive (RI)

• Endurance class: ~1 DWPD range (read-dominant workloads)

Firmware / platform

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

Warranty

• 3-year HPE warranty

Use case

• High-density read-heavy SSD pools: virtualization tiers, app/data layers, caching, and general enterprise all-flash where SAS is the preferred interface.

Where it fits (and when to choose something else)

Perfect for:

• ProLiant/Synergy servers with SFF hot-swap bays

• Read-dominant virtualization and application workloads

• Replacing large SAS HDD tiers with dense flash capacity

Choose something else if:

• You’re write-heavy → go Mixed-Use (MU) or Write-Intensive (WI) SAS SSDs

• You need the lowest latency / highest throughput → step up to NVMe Gen4/Gen5 SSDs

• You’re cost-optimizing pure boot/read → a smaller SATA RI SSD may be cheaper

TL;DR

P40510-B21 is HPE’s 7.68TB SAS 12G Read-Intensive SFF SSD on Basic Carrier:
a hot-swap, enterprise-qualified Value SAS SSD built for very large, read-heavy server storage tiers.