HP ProLiant DL160 Gen9 1U rack server Xeon E5-2623 v3 3GHz 16GB DDR4 2×600GB SAS H240

Balanced 1U rack server

The HP ProLiant DL160 Gen9 is a new 1U rack server built around a single Intel Xeon E5-2623 v3 quad-core processor running at 3 GHz. It ships with 16 GB of DDR4 ECC registered memory and two 600 GB 15K 2.5-inch SAS drives managed by a Smart HBA H240 controller supporting RAID 0, 1 and 5. Redundant hot-swap 550 W power supplies are included.

Suits general-purpose workloads.

This configuration fits cloud hosting, virtualisation and general-purpose applications that benefit from balanced compute and fast SAS storage. Buyers who need the full 1 TB memory ceiling or dual-processor performance should look at a differently configured unit. The single CPU and 16 GB installed limit immediate capacity for large in-memory databases or heavy consolidation.

Sustained load on dual-core turbo

Under continuous demand the Xeon E5-2623 v3 maintains its 3 GHz base clock across four cores with hyper-threading providing eight threads. The 15 000 RPM SAS drives deliver consistent throughput for random I/O without the thermal throttling seen in burst-oriented SSDs. The H240 controller offloads RAID parity calculations, keeping CPU utilisation predictable during prolonged rebuilds or parity checks.