The HP StorageWorks 1500cs Modular Smart Array (MSA1500) is a Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN) 2U controller shelf that connects to HP StorageWorks SCSI and/or Serial ATA (SATA) disk enclosures. Together they provide customers with a flexible low-cost, high capacity storage solution. The MSA1500cs has been designed as a hardware foundation for future solutions to ensure maximum investment protection. The MSA1500cs is perfect for those customers looking for less expensive storage solutions using HP SATA enclosures to store data that doesn't require a high degree of I/O performance and/or is viewed as non-mission critical to business operations. The MSA1500cs with up-to-eight attached SATA enclosures can provide the customer with up to 64TB of native capacity. If the business requires enterprise-class SCSI reliability then attach up-to-four SCSI enclosures for a native capacity of 16.8TB.