HP Solid State Drives

HPE SATA, SAS and NVMe SSDs for ProLiant servers and HP workstations

About Solid State Drives

HP and HPE solid state drives are classified by endurance as well as by capacity, and the endurance class is the part most often got wrong. Two drives of the same size can be built for very different write loads.

Endurance classes

Read Intensive - built for workloads that mostly read. The lowest drive-writes-per-day rating and the lowest cost per gigabyte.
Mixed Use - a middle endurance tier for general virtualisation and database work.
Write Intensive - the highest endurance tier, for logging, caching and heavy transactional writes.

Older HPE listings use the phrase Mainstream Endurance for a comparable middle tier. Putting a read-intensive drive under a write-heavy workload will not fail immediately; it will simply consume its endurance budget faster than planned.

Interfaces in stock

SATA 3Gb/s and 6Gb/s - the largest part of our HP SSD inventory
SAS 12Gb/s - dual-ported, the usual choice where controller failover matters
NVMe - PCI Express attached, in M.2 2280 and 2.5-inch form factors

Form factor and carrier

Most enterprise HP SSDs are 2.5-inch SFF. Fitting one into a 3.5-inch LFF bay needs an adapter, and hot-plug bays need the carrier that matches your ProLiant generation - carriers changed more than once across generations and are listed separately on our HP drive caddy page.

NVMe is not a drop-in replacement for SAS or SATA. It needs bays and a backplane wired for PCI Express, which not every ProLiant has.

Send us the ProLiant model and the workload and we will match capacity, endurance class and carrier together.

Featured Solid State Drives Products

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Most-searched Solid State Drives part numbers

The HPE SSDs that US buyers look up most often on Google, from our own Search Console data. Every part listed is priced, photographed and in stock as of 10 October 2026.

Part number	Description	Price
K0F27A	HP 1920GB SAS 6Gb/s 2.5-inch Solid State Drive for 3PAR StoreServ M6710	$603.38
P49291-B21	HPE P49291-B21 1.92TB Triple-Level Cell SAS 24Gb/s Hot Swappable Read Intensive 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive with Smart Carrier for ProLiant Gen10	$1,272.00
P48224-001	HPE P48224-001 1.92TB PCI Express NVMe x4 Read Intensive Hot-Pluggable U.3 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive	$606.40
P05923-005	HPE P05923-005 3.84TB SATA 6Gb/s Read Intensive Hot-Pluggable 2.5-In Solid State Drive For ProLiant Dl20 Gen10	$1,292.00
P11360-001	HPE P11360-001 3.84TB Multi-Level Cell SAS 12Gb/s Hot-Swappable Read Intensive 3.5-Inch Solid State Drive with Smart Carrier for ProLiant Servers	$2,476.00
P40493-B21	HPE P40493-B21 1.6TB PCI Express NVMe 4.0 Mixed Use U.3 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive With BC	$1,102.40
3286549-A	HP 1.6TB SAS 12Gb/s Mainstream Endurance 2.5-inch Solid State Drive (SSD)	$405.75
728745-B21	HP Value Endurance Enterprise 800GB SATA 6Gb/s 3.5-inch Solid State Drive	$521.53
855638-001	HP 256GB Triple-Level Cell SATA 6Gb/s M.2 2280 SED Solid State Drive	$230.10
P18426-B21	HPE P18426-B21 1.92TB SATA 6Gb/s Read Intensive 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive for ProLiant Server	$417.60
P10218-B21	HP 7.68TB NVMe x4 Lanes Read Intensive 2.5-inch Solid State Drive	$3,462.40
VK003840GWTTD	HPE VK003840GWTTD 3.84TB Multi-Level Cell SATA 6Gb/s Hot-Pluggable Read Intensive 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive with Tray for ProLiant Gen10 Servers	$1,292.00

Solid State Drives in stock, by capacity

Live count of HP/HPE SSDs that are priced, photographed and ready to ship, taken from our own catalogue on 11 October 2026. Prices are what you pay, not a list price.

Capacity	Drives available	Price range	Average
120GB	123	$68.00 – $2,101.20	$309.91
128GB	179	$43.21 – $1,701.95	$249.49
200GB	151	$86.40 – $8,243.22	$388.10
240GB	187	$52.00 – $6,885.86	$334.60
256GB	341	$73.60 – $1,929.30	$265.65
400GB	284	$59.84 – $4,168.61	$430.78
480GB	335	$36.00 – $5,880.25	$355.92
512GB	122	$110.40 – $1,333.02	$355.71
800GB	303	$73.60 – $12,614.40	$864.04
960GB	255	$112.00 – $5,950.40	$742.02
1TB	488	$110.78 – $26,681.16	$1,115.90
3TB	245	$376.00 – $28,064.00	$1,769.46

Need several of one capacity? Paste the part numbers into the quick order pad, or ask for a bulk quote.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the difference between read intensive and mixed use HP SSDs?

It is an endurance rating, expressed as drive writes per day. Read intensive drives are built for workloads that mostly read and carry the lowest endurance and lowest cost per gigabyte. Mixed use sits in the middle for general virtualisation and database work. Write intensive is the highest tier, for logging, caching and heavy transactional writes.

Can I fit an NVMe SSD to any ProLiant?

No. NVMe drives connect over PCI Express, so the server needs bays and a backplane wired for it. A chassis built only for SAS and SATA cannot take an NVMe drive in a hot-plug bay, regardless of the physical size matching. Some ProLiant models accept an NVMe add-in card instead.

Do HP SSDs come with the caddy?

Not always, and the carrier design changed across ProLiant generations. A drive supplied in one generation of tray will not necessarily mount in a different chassis. Tell us the server model and we will confirm the drive and carrier together.

Is a SAS SSD better than SATA?

For most workloads the difference is not raw speed but topology. SAS drives are dual-ported, which allows two controllers to reach the same drive and matters where controller failover is part of the design. SATA is single-ported and generally cheaper per gigabyte.