The HPE MSA 1040 SAN Storage offers many of the HPE MSA 2040 features but at a substantially lower entry price point. HPE ProLiant and BladeSystems administrators as well as IT generalists will find storage management tasks simple and intuitive with MSA. The MSA 1040 arrays leverage a new 4th-generation controller architecture with a new processor, 2-host ports and 4 GB cache per controller.