HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9 16-bay SFF rack server E5-2670 v3 12-core 2.3GHz 8GB DDR4 P440 4GB FBWC

HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9 2U server

The HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9 is a 2U rack server system built for data-centre workloads. It ships with a single Intel Xeon E5-2670 v3 twelve-core processor running at 2.3GHz and 8GB of DDR4 memory. The chassis provides sixteen small-form-factor drive bays and includes two 500W redundant hot-swap power supplies. An HP Smart Array P440 controller with 4GB flash-backed write cache manages storage.

Suited for expandable 2U deployments

This server suits teams needing a dense 2U platform with sixteen drive bays, redundant power and a hardware RAID controller that supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60. The twenty-four DIMM slots allow memory to grow well beyond the installed 8GB using DDR4 ECC registered modules. Buyers who require drives included, an operating system pre-loaded, or a GPU for graphical workloads should look at something else.

Sixteen SFF drive bays with P440 RAID

The defining specification is the sixteen 2.5-inch SFF drive bays paired with the Smart Array P440 4GB FBWC controller. This combination determines how many SAS drives can be fitted and which RAID levels are available without adding a second controller. The board also supports a second Xeon E5 v3 processor to double the core count to twenty-four physical cores.