Dell PowerEdge R420 vs HPE ProLiant DL160 Gen9
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The PowerEdge R420 is a compact 1U dual-socket rack server built with Intel Xeon E5-2400 series processors. The HPE ProLiant DL160 Gen9 is a balanced 1U dual-socket rack server built for dense computing and web serving environments.
| Dell PowerEdge R420 | HPE ProLiant DL160 Gen9 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | HPE |
| Status | end-of-support | end-of-sale |
| Released | May 2012 | Sep 2014 |
| Form factor | 1U rack | 1U rack |
| Cpu sockets | 2 | 2 |
| Cpu platform | Intel Xeon E5-2400 and E5-2400 v2 series processors | Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 / v4 series |
| Memory slots | 12 | 16 |
| Memory type | DDR3 ECC RDIMM/UDIMM up to 1600 MT/s | DDR4-2133 / DDR4-2400 SmartMemory RDIMM / LRDIMM |
| Drive bays | Up to 4x 3.5in or 8x 2.5in hot-plug SAS/SATA drives | Up to 4 LFF or 8 SFF hot plug SAS/SATA |
| Pcie slots | Up to 2x PCIe Gen3 slots | Up to 3 PCIe 3.0 expansion slots |
| Power supply | Dual hot-plug redundant PSUs (550W) | 550W or 800W / 900W redundant power supply |
| Memory max (GB) | — | 1,024 |
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