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Technical white paper | HP Z440 Workstation
I/O and storage
Internal I/O
The HP Z440 provides a total of ve high-performance graphics and I/O slots.
Regardless of the processor conguration, the HP Z440 provides two PCIe3 x16, one PCIe3 x8, one PCIe2 x4, and one
PCIe2 x1 dedicated electrical slots. All slots match the mechanical lengths to their electrical lengths and are open ended.
In addition, the HP Z440 also maintains a single PCI slot that is derived from a PCIe to PCI Bridge that brings the total
number of I/O slots to 6.
The HP Z440 provides an internal 1-port USB3.0 connector and an internal 2-port USB2.0 header.
Storage
The C612 chipset supports two SATA AHCI controllers, sSATA and SATA. The sSATA controller supports four 6 Gb/s ports
and RAID modes 0, 1, 10 and 5. The SATA controller supports two 6 Gb/s ports and RAID modes 0 and 1. Ports from both
controllers can be routed to the rear panel with an eSATA bulkhead option. Note that it is not possible to RAID across the
two SATA controllers.
The optional HP Z Turbo Drive featuring a PCIe connected SSD is supported on this platform and provides performance
levels greater than 1 GB/s. Up to two Z Turbo drives can be congured in the factory. Data RAID is supported through
Microsoft Windows Disk Manager.
External I/O
On the front I/O area, the HP Z440 provides four USB 3.0 ports (the top-most supports battery charging), combo headset
and separate microphone connections.
In the rear I/O area, the HP Z440 provides four USB 3.0 ports, two USB 2.0 ports, one gigabit ethernet LAN port, audio
Line-In, audio Line-Out, and PS/2. Additional rear I/O ports can be added via PCIe add-in cards.
Graphics
The HP Z440 Workstation will support up to a single 300 W graphics card or two 150 W graphics cards when equipped
with the 700 W power supply. When using the optional 525 W power supply a single 75 W graphics card is supported.
Other features
• 700 W power supply, 90% ecient
• Optional 525 W power supply, 85% ecient
• Rear panel power on/o switch and LED for easier rack maintenance
• ENERGY STAR® qualied congurations, China’s Energy Conservation Program (CECP) congurations, European Union’s
ErP LOT6 2013 power limit of 0.5 W in o mode
• Intel® vPro™
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manageability with support both for DASH and Intel® AMT (Advanced Manageability Technology) on all
the Xeon® processors. IT managers now have increased exibility in optimizing their Enterprise manageability strategy
across HP’s Commercial Notebooks, Desktops, and Workstations.