Are you looking for an enterprise-level controller to maximize performance and storage capacity and to connect to externally attached drives? The HPE Smart Array P408e-m SR Gen10 Controller, supporting 12 Gb/s SAS and PCIe 3.0, provides enterprise-class storage performance, reliability, security and efficiency needed to address your evolving data storage needs. It has eight external SAS lanes, allowing connection to externally attached SAS or SATA drives. This controller supports Mixed Mode operations of RAID and HBA simultaneously, and offers encryption for data-at rest on any drive. The HPE Smart Array Gen10 controllers are supported by the HPE Smart Storage Battery, which supports multiple devices and is sold separately.