HP ProLiant DL160 Gen9 1U rack server 2× Xeon E5-2650 v3 10C 2.3GHz 128GB DDR4 2× 500GB SATA B140i

Balanced 1U rack server

The HP ProLiant DL160 Gen9 is a new 1U rack server built for general-purpose workloads. Dual Intel Xeon E5-2650 v3 processors provide twenty physical cores and forty threads at 2.3GHz. The chassis supports up to thirty-six total cores across two sockets and includes redundant hot-swap 550W power supplies. It targets buyers who need dense compute in a single rack unit without GPU acceleration.

Memory ceiling fixed at 128GB

This unit ships with 128GB of DDR4 ECC registered memory installed across sixteen DIMM slots, matching the maximum capacity the processor generation can address. No further memory expansion is possible on this configuration. Buyers who want more storage or larger memory footprints must choose a different platform because the CPU memory controller limits total system RAM to this level.

Sustained throughput on SATA RAID

The B140i software RAID controller manages the two included 500GB 7.2K SATA drives in RAID 0, 1 or 5 using only the SATA interface. Write-heavy workloads will see performance bound by the mechanical drive speed and the software RAID overhead rather than burst cache. Thermal design relies on the 1U airflow path and redundant power to maintain clock speeds during continuous multi-core load.