HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9 12LFF 1x Xeon E5-2640 v3 384GB DDR4 rack server

HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9 12LFF Server

This rack-mount server provides twelve 3.5-inch drive bays for high-capacity local storage. It ships with one Xeon E5-2640 v3 processor running at 2.6GHz and 384GB of DDR4 ECC registered memory. The chassis includes a P440ar SAS controller with expander and dual 800W hot-plug power supplies for redundancy.

Suits dense storage workloads; not for GPU compute

The 12LFF chassis targets users who need many large drives in a standard 2U rack space, such as backup repositories, media archives or software-defined storage clusters. Integrated graphics and the absence of installed GPUs mean the system cannot serve workloads that require hardware-accelerated compute or 3D rendering. Buyers needing PCIe add-in cards for specialised acceleration should look at a different platform.

Single-socket limit caps memory at 384GB

Only one processor is installed and the board supports a maximum of two, so the current 384GB DDR4 configuration cannot be expanded beyond the single-socket memory ceiling without adding a second compatible Xeon. The P440ar controller manages SAS and SATA drives through the internal expander, but the server arrives with no drives fitted, so storage capacity depends entirely on the drives you add.