P49049-B21 - HPE 1.6TB SAS 24G MU SFF BC MV SSD

HPE P49049-B21 — 1.6TB SAS 24G Mixed Use SFF Basic Carrier Multi-Vendor SSD

What it is

P49049-B21 is an HPE enterprise SAS solid-state drive designed for HPE ProLiant servers and supported storage platforms.
It’s a 1.6TB SAS 24Gb/s, Mixed Use (MU) SSD in a 2.5" small form factor (SFF) that ships on an HPE Basic Carrier (BC) for hot-swap bays.
“Multi-Vendor” means HPE may supply approved equivalent SSD models over time while maintaining the same workload class and published specification range.

Why buyers pick P49049-B21 (plain English)

Higher-speed SAS interface
SAS 24Gb/s delivers more throughput than 12G SAS, improving performance for mixed workloads without moving to NVMe.

Balanced capacity and endurance
1.6TB offers solid usable space with endurance suited for both reads and writes in production environments.

Mixed Use workload class
Optimized for workloads with both read and write operations — a versatile choice for server storage.

Hot-swap ready
Ships on an HPE Basic Carrier for easy installation and replacement in ProLiant hot-swap bays.

Multi-Vendor value
Approved multi-vendor sourcing provides cost advantages while maintaining consistent workload-class performance.

60-second spec box (P49049-B21)

Capacity
1.6TB

Interface
SAS 24Gb/s

Form factor / carrier
2.5" SFF
HPE Basic Carrier (hot-swap)

Workload class
Mixed Use (MU)

Endurance class
Balanced read/write enterprise SSD

Firmware / platform
HPE-qualified SSD firmware for ProLiant

Warranty
3-year HPE warranty

Use case
Virtualization, mixed transactional workloads, boot/app storage, general enterprise storage.

Where it fits (and when to choose something else)

Perfect for:

• ProLiant servers with SFF hot-swap bays

• Mixed workload enterprise storage

• Virtualization and HCI environments

• Cost-sensitive production storage tiers

Choose something else if:

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

• You need higher write endurance → Write Intensive (WI) SSDs

• You need lowest latency and max IOPS → NVMe SSDs

TL;DR

P49049-B21 is HPE’s 1.6TB SAS 24G Mixed Use SFF SSD on Basic Carrier:
a hot-swap, balanced enterprise SAS SSD delivering flexible performance and capacity for mixed server workloads.