HP MSA 2040 is one of the fastest disk arrays on the market of storage systems for small and medium—sized businesses. The new architecture of controllers, the processing power of processors and the total amount of cache memory of 8GB allows for effective support of the new Fibre Channel 16GB/s standard and SSD disks. For traditional MSA customers solving new tasks of server hardware virtualization and storage consolidation, HP MSA 2040 is the ideal platform combining affordable price, high performance and reliability.