HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9 12-bay LFF 2× Xeon E5-2643 v3 3.4 GHz 8 GB DDR4 2× 600 GB SAS H240ar

12-bay LFF rack server

The HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9 is a 2U rack server built for data-centre workloads that need dense 3.5-inch SAS storage. It ships with two Xeon E5-2643 v3 processors running at 3.4 GHz, 8 GB of DDR4 ECC memory and a Smart HBA H240ar controller supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60. Dual 500 W hot-swap power supplies provide redundancy.

Suits storage-heavy tasks; not for GPU compute

This configuration suits buyers who need twelve large-form-factor drive bays with 15 K rpm SAS spindles and hardware RAID. It is not for workloads that require GPU acceleration, more than 8 GB of memory out of the box, or boot drives on an interface other than SAS or SATA. The installed Matrox G200eH2 graphics adapter is intended for management console output only.

12 LFF drive bays with H240ar RAID

The single specification that decides fit is the twelve 3.5-inch SAS bays backed by the H240ar controller. If the deployment needs that exact bay count and RAID feature set, this chassis matches; if the plan calls for a different bay quantity, 2.5-inch bays or a controller with a different RAID feature set, another platform will be required.