HP StorageWorks 81E 8Gb PCI-e Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter Single Port

The HP 8Gb PCIe Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters brings datacenter infrastructure components to a higher level of performance and efficiency with the ability to deliver twice the I/O performance of 4Gb HBAs. An 8Gb FC HBA purchased today is backward compatible with 4 and 2 Gb storage networks and will protect future investments. When using storage intensive applications such as backup/restore database transactions virtualization and rich media the increased performance of the 8 Gb infrastructure enables more rapid storage and retrieval of critical information.