The HPE H221 Host Bus Adapter (HBA) is compatible with select HPE ProLiant Gen8 rack servers and tower servers, and provides customers with the flexibility and speed they have come to expect from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. It features eight external SAS ports (two 4x external connectors) that now support HPE SAS tape drives as well as 6Gb/s SAS and SATA hard drives with second generation performance. The H221 HBA has been optimized for connection to the HPE P2000 G3 SAS Modular Smart Array, D2000 and D6000 Disk Enclosures, and MSA2040 SAS storage and is designed to drive cost-effective and reliable scalability in today’s data centers.