HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9 2U Rack Server 2× Xeon E5-2670v3 12C 2.3GHz 8GB DDR4 2× 1TB SAS H240ar

Dual-processor rack server for dense compute

The HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9 fits 2U of rack space and ships with two Xeon E5-2670v3 processors, each providing twelve cores at 2.3GHz. Eight gigabytes of DDR4 ECC registered memory are installed across twenty-four DIMM slots. Two 1TB 7.2K SAS drives connect through a Smart HBA H240ar controller. Dual 500W hot-swap power supplies provide redundancy for continuous operation.

SAS interface caps drive speed at 6Gbps

The installed 2.5-inch SAS drives are rated for 6Gbps throughput, which limits sequential transfer rates regardless of the controller's 12Gbps capability. The H240ar supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 across eight small-form-factor bays. Additional bays can expand the chassis to sixteen or twenty-four drives, but the backplane remains bound to the 6Gbps SAS link speed. SATA drives would share the same physical limit.

Memory ceiling fixed at 8GB unless upgraded

The system arrives with only 8GB populated, yet the chipset and twenty-four slots allow up to 3TB when fully loaded with 64GB DDR4 modules at 2400MT/s. Buyers who need more capacity must purchase additional registered ECC DIMMs; the current configuration cannot run memory-intensive workloads or large virtualisation hosts. No NVME or GPU acceleration is present, so compute-bound tasks rely solely on the two twelve-core CPUs.