HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9 12-bay LFF Xeon E5-2609 v3 1.9GHz 4GB DDR4 H240ar

HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9 12-Bay Server

This 2U rack server is built for data-centre workloads that need high local storage density. It ships with a single Intel Xeon E5-2609 v3 six-core processor running at 1.9GHz and 4GB of DDR4 ECC memory. The chassis provides twelve 3.5-inch large-form-factor drive bays and includes an HP Smart HBA H240ar controller supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60. Dual 500W redundant hot-swap power supplies are installed.

Suits storage-heavy roles.

Buyers needing twelve 3.5-inch bays for SAS or SATA drives in a compact rack footprint will fit this platform. The single-socket configuration and 4GB base memory mean it is not ready for memory-intensive virtualisation or heavy compute clusters without adding a second processor and populating more of the twenty-four DIMM slots. The integrated Matrox G200eH2 graphics with 16MB video memory only covers basic console output, so workloads requiring GPU acceleration should look elsewhere.

Needs drives, memory and OS to complete the build

The twelve front bays accept 3.5-inch SAS or SATA drives; no drives are included. The H240ar controller handles RAID internally, freeing the CPU from parity calculations. Twenty-four DDR4 registered ECC slots support up to 3TB total when both processor sockets are filled, though actual speed depends on the installed CPUs. An operating system must be supplied separately. The redundant power supplies and hot-swap design simplify maintenance in a live rack environment.