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HPE's Smart Carrier — the drive tray with the LED ring and the "Do Not Remove" warning — was standard on ProLiant Gen8, Gen9, and Gen10 servers. From Gen10 Plus onward, HPE switched to the simplified Basic Carrier. Here's what e

M.2 SSDs have a specific job in HPE ProLiant servers — and it isn't bulk storage. Here's where these compact drives actually fit (hint: it's your boot and OS tier), how the HPE NS204i boot device works, and how to choose between SATA

"Flexible Smart Array" is HPE's name for the modular RAID controllers that mount in a dedicated slot instead of consuming PCIe — a design from the ProLiant Gen8/Gen9 era that still runs in thousands of servers today. Here's what the t

Every HPE SSD belongs to one of three endurance classes — Read Intensive, Mixed Use, or Write Intensive — and choosing the right one is mostly a matter of matching one number to your workload. Here's what the classes really mean

DL360 Gen10 memory compatibility comes down to one question most buyers skip: which generation of Intel Xeon Scalable processor is in your server? Answer that, and the right DIMM type, speed, and capacity fall into place. Here's the full co

Seen "MV" in an HPE SSD description and wondered if it's some kind of third-party drive? It's the opposite: Multi-Vendor is HPE's own program for sourcing the same drive SKU from multiple qualified manufacturers — same HPE part number

How much memory can an HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10 hold? Up to 3 TB of DRAM with LRDIMMs, 1.54 TB with RDIMMs, or as much as 6 TB using Intel Optane Persistent Memory — with two fine-print items (your CPU model and your DI

A buyer's guide to choosing the right HP or HPE ProLiant drive for your server or storage array — by form factor, drive carrier, interface, and generation. Last updated: 2026 From time to time, a customer needs guidance on which typ

In July 2015, Intel and Micron announced a memory technology they said would be 1,000 times faster than NAND flash. We covered the announcement the day it happened. A decade later, 3D XPoint has been built, sold as Intel Optane, deployed in