HP ProLiant DL160 Gen9 1U Rack Server 2x Xeon E5-2650 v3 2.3GHz 10C 64GB DDR4 2x 500GB SATA B140i

Compact 1U Rack Server with Dual Ten-Core Xeons

The HP ProLiant DL160 Gen9 is a 1U rackmount server equipped with two Intel Xeon E5-2650 v3 processors, each providing ten cores at 2.3 GHz. It includes 64 GB of DDR4 ECC registered memory distributed across 16 DIMM slots. Two 500 GB 7.2K SATA drives are installed in the eight-bay SFF chassis, managed by the B140i software RAID controller supporting RAID 0, 1 and 5. Redundant hot-swap 550 W power supplies are fitted.

Suits Dense Compute Workloads Needing Maximum Memory

This configuration targets environments that need high core density and large memory capacity in a single rack unit, such as virtualization hosts, database nodes or high-performance computing clusters. The 64 GB installed matches the processor-limited maximum, so buyers who need more memory per socket cannot expand further on this platform. Organisations requiring hardware RAID with cache protection or dedicated GPU acceleration for compute tasks should evaluate alternative systems.

B140i Software RAID Limited to SATA Drives

The integrated B140i controller provides RAID 0, 1 and 5 functionality exclusively for SATA devices; it does not support SAS or other drive interfaces for array creation. This constraint defines the storage architecture: only the installed SATA drives or additional SATA SSDs and HDDs can participate in hardware-assisted redundancy. If the deployment requires SAS-based RAID arrays or mixed-interface storage pools, a different controller or server model must be selected.