480GB SATA 6G RI M.2 2280

The refurbished HPE P19890-B21-RFB is a 480 GB solid-state drive for servers handling read-intensive work. Its M.2 2280 format is intended for tasks such as boot and swap storage, web servers, and read caching.

It uses SATA at 6 Gbit/s, not NVMe, and has TLC memory. The drive is not hot-pluggable, so it is for installation in a compatible server storage configuration. M.2 2280 offers a compact option for systems equipped for this drive type.

Listed sequential speeds are 510 MB/s read and 400 MB/s write. Random performance is rated at 65000 IOPS for 4KB reads and 38000 IOPS for 4KB writes.

HPE describes the corresponding SATA M.2 Read Intensive family for HPE ProLiant server series and HPE controllers; the family includes full data-path error detection. This item’s MPN is P19890-B21-RFB, corresponding to HPE base product P19890-B21.