HP ProLiant DL380 G9 2U rack server E5-2630 v3 8C 2.4GHz 4GB DDR4 P440 4GB FBWC 24 SFF

24 SFF drive bays with P440 RAID

This 2U rack server provides 24 small form factor drive bays and an HP Smart Array P440 controller with 4GB flash-backed write cache. The RAID engine supports levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 for flexible data protection across many disks. Redundant hot-swap 500W power supplies keep the array online during a power-module failure.

Single Xeon E5-2630 v3 limits heavy compute

The installed eight-core processor runs at 2.4GHz and offers 16 threads with hyper-threading, suiting general-purpose virtualization, file serving and database tasks. Only 4GB of DDR4 ECC memory is fitted from the factory, so workloads that need large in-memory datasets will require additional DIMMs before deployment. Buyers who need high core counts or dual-socket performance from day one should evaluate other configurations.

4GB base memory demands immediate upgrade

The system ships with a single 4GB DDR4 registered DIMM across 24 available slots, leaving the memory subsystem essentially empty. Maximum supported capacity reaches 3TB when both processor sockets are populated, but the current single-CPU configuration caps usable slots at 12. Any production role will need a memory purchase matched to the application working set.