HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9 24-bay SFF Xeon E5-2670 v3 12-core 2.3GHz 128GB DDR4 P440 4GB FBWC

24-Bay 2U Rack Server

The HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9 is a 2U rack server designed for dense storage workloads. It arrives with twenty-four small form factor drive bays and a Smart Array P440 controller with 4GB flash-backed write cache. A single Xeon E5-2670 v3 processor running at 2.3GHz provides twelve cores and twenty-four threads. The system includes 128GB of DDR4 memory across twenty-four DIMM slots.

Suits storage-heavy virtualisation, not GPU compute

This configuration fits environments that need many local drives behind a hardware RAID controller supporting levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60. Redundant 500W power supplies protect uptime. Buyers who need GPU acceleration or more than twelve physical cores per socket should evaluate other platforms. The integrated Matrox G200eH2 graphics with 16MB video memory serves only basic console output.

Maximum installed memory is 128GB

The server ships with every one of its twenty-four DIMM slots populated, reaching the 128GB ceiling for this processor. DDR4 registered ECC modules operate up to 2400MT/s depending on CPU capability. Adding a second processor would unlock the remaining slots and raise the theoretical platform limit, but the current single-CPU configuration cannot accept more memory.