HPE P48812-B21 ProLiant DL380 Gen11 2SFF U.3 Side by Side Drive Cage Kit

The HPE P48812-B21 is a 2-SFF U.3 side-by-side drive cage expansion kit for ProLiant DL380 Gen11 servers, enabling higher density, tiered storage options within the standard chassis form factor.

**Key Features & Benefits:**

1. **Increased Drive Density:** Adds a secondary cage directly beside the primary, doubling the number of front-facing Small Form Factor (SFF) drive bays to **24** without consuming valuable PCIe slots.
2. **High-Performance U.3 Support:** Compatible with the latest **NVMe U.3** drives (offering PCIe Gen5 readiness), providing significantly faster data access, lower latency, and high throughput. Also supports SATA/SAS via interposer boards.
3. **Tiered Storage Flexibility:** Allows mixing fast U.3 NVMe drives for performance-critical applications with cost-effective SATA/SAS drives for capacity in the same server chassis.
4. **Optimized Value:** Maximizes storage performance and capacity per rack unit, improving ROI compared to external storage or slot-based solutions, while maintaining Gen11 server reliability and manageability (HPE Integrated Lights-Out/iLO).
5. **Simple, Validated Integration:** A direct, hot-pluggable replacement for the standard cage; guaranteed compatibility and reliability when used with supported Gen11 servers.

**Unique Selling Points:**

* **Highest SFF Drive Density for DL380 Gen11:** Delivers **24** front bays in 2U, a key differentiator for storage-heavy workloads.
* **Future-proof U.3 Technology:** Unlocks the full performance potential of Gen11 servers with support for the latest U.3 NVMe drives.
* **Enables True Tiered Storage:** Unique ability to deploy both cutting-edge NVMe and traditional drives side-by-side in one dense server platform.