HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9 2U rack server E5-2630 v3 2.4 GHz 128 GB DDR4 2× 500 GB SATA B140i

HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9 2U server

The HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9 is a 2U rack server built for data-centre workloads that need dense compute and memory in a compact chassis. It ships with a single Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 eight-core processor at 2.4 GHz and 128 GB of DDR4 ECC registered memory. The platform supports a second processor for up to 16 physical cores and 32 threads in total. This configuration targets virtualization hosts, database nodes and general-purpose application tiers.

B140i software RAID SATA limits

Storage is handled by the embedded B140i controller which provides software RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10 for SATA drives only. The unit includes two 500 GB 7.2K 6 Gbps 2.5-inch enterprise SATA drives in an 8-bay SFF front cage. SAS, NVME and hardware RAID acceleration are not supported by this controller, so arrays are limited to the throughput and queue depth of the SATA interface. Additional drive cages or a universal media bay can expand the bay count but require a different controller for non-SATA media.

Single processor memory ceiling

With one processor installed the 24 DIMM slots are halved to 12 active slots and the maximum addressable memory is 128 GB, which this unit already reaches. Buyers who need more than 128 GB of RAM must add the second processor to unlock the remaining slots and the full 3 TB platform limit. The installed DDR4 modules run up to 2400 MT/s subject to the processor capability.