HP ProLiant DL160 Gen9 1U rack server E5-2603 v3 6C 1.6GHz 128GB DDR4 B140i 8 SFF

HP ProLiant DL160 Gen9 1U server

The HP ProLiant DL160 Gen9 is a 1U rack server system designed for balanced compute and storage density. It ships with a single Intel Xeon E5-2603 v3 six-core processor at 1.6 GHz and 128 GB of DDR4 memory across 16 DIMM slots. The chassis provides eight 2.5-inch SFF drive bays and dual redundant hot-swap 550 W power supplies. An embedded Matrox G200 GPU with 16 MB video memory handles basic display output. The B140i controller delivers SATA RAID 0, 1 and 5.

Suits single-socket workloads needing dense memory

This configuration suits environments running single-socket workloads that benefit from the installed 128 GB DDR4 capacity and eight drive bays. The 16 DIMM slots are fully populated at the maximum supported capacity for a single processor, so buyers who need more memory must add a second CPU. The B140i controller supports SATA RAID only, so workloads requiring hardware RAID acceleration should evaluate a different platform. Organisations needing GPU compute or dedicated graphics beyond the Matrox G200 will not be served by this unit.

Storage controller limited to SATA RAID levels

The B140i Software RAID controller supports RAID 0, 1 and 5 on SATA drives only. It does not support SAS or hardware RAID functions, so the controller choice determines which drive types and redundancy schemes are available.