P47812-B21 - HPE 1.9TB SATA 6G RI SFF SC PM893 SSD

HPE P47812-B21 — 7.68TB SATA 6G Mixed Use SFF BC Multi-Vendor SSD

What it is

P47812-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 and published spec range.

Why buyers pick P47812-B21 (plain English)

• Maximum SATA capacity with real write tolerance
  Mixed Use is the right tier when you want huge SATA SSD capacity but still expect meaningful writes in production.

• Biggest TB-per-slot builds in SFF servers
  7.68TB per bay is ideal for dense virtualization datastores and flash pools without moving up to SAS/NVMe pricing.

• Hot-swap ready
  Comes pre-mounted in the HPE carrier for clean installation in ProLiant SFF bays.

• Enterprise-qualified stability
  HPE firmware validation + Multi-Vendor sourcing keeps it consistent and supported.

60-second spec box (P47812-B21)

Capacity

• 7.68TB

Interface

• SATA 6Gb/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, mixed production app tiers, moderate-write databases, dense SATA flash pools.

Where it fits (and when to choose something else)

Perfect for:

• ProLiant servers with SFF hot-swap bays

• Dense all-flash pools needing both capacity + endurance

• Virtualization and production workloads that write more than “boot-only”

Choose something else if:

• You’re mostly read-heavy → Read Intensive (RI) SATA SSDs cost less

• You want dual-port reliability + higher sustained performance → SAS SSDs

• You need lowest latency and max IOPS → NVMe SSDs

TL;DR

P47812-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-world production workloads.