P40511-B21 - HPE 1.92TB SAS 12G MU SFF BC Value SAS MV SSD

HPE P40511-B21 — 1.92TB SAS 12G Mixed Use SFF Basic Carrier Value SAS Multi-Vendor SSD

What it is

P40511-B21 is an HPE enterprise SAS solid-state drive designed for HPE ProLiant servers and supported storage platforms.
It’s a 1.92TB SAS 12Gb/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.
“Value SAS 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 P40511-B21 (plain English)

Balanced capacity and endurance
1.92TB delivers substantial usable storage while providing endurance suited for both reads and writes typical in production environments.

Mixed Use workload class
Optimized for workloads involving a mixture of reads and writes — an economical balance of performance and longevity.

Enterprise SAS interface
12Gb/s SAS provides dual-ported connectivity, robust throughput, and enterprise-grade reliability.

Hot-swap ready
Comes with an HPE Basic Carrier for easy installation and tool-less replacement in hot-swap bays.

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

60-second spec box (P40511-B21)

Capacity
1.92TB

Interface
SAS 12Gb/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 datastores, 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 hyperconverged 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 maximum performance / lowest latency → NVMe SSDs

TL;DR

P40511-B21 is HPE’s 1.92TB SAS 12G Mixed Use SFF SSD on Basic Carrier:
a hot-swap enterprise SAS SSD that balances usable capacity, endurance, and performance for everyday production workloads.