Dell PowerEdge R230 vs HPE ProLiant DL20 Gen9
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerEdge R230 is an affordable, short-depth 1U single-socket enterprise rack server built for small business file/print serving, web edge nodes, and dedicated firewall appliances. The HPE ProLiant DL20 Gen9 is a compact, short-depth 1U single-socket rack server engineered for edge deployments, remote branch offices, and small business workloads.
| Dell PowerEdge R230 | HPE ProLiant DL20 Gen9 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | HPE |
| Status | end-of-support | end-of-sale |
| Released | Nov 2015 | Nov 2015 |
| Form factor | 1U rack | 1U rack |
| Cpu sockets | 1 | 1 |
| Cpu platform | Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5 and E3-1200 v6 Series Processors (up to 4 cores, 80W TDP) | Intel Xeon E3-1200 v5 / v6, Core i3, Pentium |
| Memory slots | 4 | 4 |
| Memory type | DDR4-2133 / DDR4-2400 ECC UDIMM | DDR4-2133 / DDR4-2400 ECC UDIMM |
| Memory max (GB) | 64 | 64 |
| Drive bays | Up to 4x 3.5-inch cabled or hot-swap SAS/SATA drives | Up to 2 LFF or 4 SFF non-hot plug or hot plug SATA/SAS |
| Pcie slots | Up to 2 PCIe Gen3 slots | 2 PCIe 3.0 expansion slots |
| Gpu support | None supported | — |
| Network onboard | 2x 1GbE embedded LOM ports; 1x 1GbE iDRAC8 port | — |
| Power supply | Single cabled 250W Bronze PSU | 290W fixed or 900W redundant power supply |
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