HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen10 hard drives: four LFF bays or eight SFF, and UK prices

A retired QuickSpecs: what that means for DL360 Gen10 owners

HPE has marked the DL360 Gen10 QuickSpecs as officially retired. In its own words, the base products listed in it "are now considered obsolete and are no longer available for sale".

That shapes the drive question. With the server itself no longer on sale, buying drives for a DL360 Gen10 means filling, expanding or repairing a machine already in service. The retired document is still the record of what HPE listed for the server while it was sold, so this page works from it, and every capacity here is as that document gives it.

One boundary: nothing on this page comes from a DL360 Gen10 Plus document, so it makes no claim about that server.

DL360 Gen10 drive cages: 4 LFF, 8 SFF or 10 SFF NVMe

HPE also lists a 10 SFF NVMe Premium chassis among the DL360 Gen10 types.

The real decision on this server is four bays or more. The 4 LFF cage gives four 3.5-inch bays, and HPE's maximum-storage row fills them with four 18TB drives. The 8 SFF cage gives eight 2.5-inch bays, with an option for two more SFF drives, or two NVMe drives, or two Dual uFF slots that hold four M.2 cartridges. Large 3.5-inch drives put the most capacity in each bay; more, smaller bays give an array more members.

The largest LFF drive in HPE's DL360 Gen10 document: 18TB

The document's revision history records "Added 18TB SAS & SATA drives" in version 42, from February 2021, and its maximum-storage rows for LFF SAS and LFF SATA hard drives are both built from four 18TB drives. 18TB is therefore the largest LFF size this document gives. We have not found the full LFF drive list in the document's text, so the smaller LFF sizes HPE offered are not set out here.

The tables below show every capacity listed on Amazon.co.uk, so rows larger than 18TB can appear. A row above 18TB is outside what this document lists for the DL360 Gen10, and we have not found a document that states how the server treats a larger drive. If you want to stay within HPE's record, hold the capacity column to 18TB or below.

HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen10 hard drives: 3.5-inch SAS prices

Maker-branded 3.5-inch enterprise SAS drives on Amazon.co.uk, not HPE parts, lowest £/TB first. With only four LFF bays to fill, the per-drive price matters as much as £/TB: four drives fill every LFF bay. The table shows 8 listings right now. Lowest £/TB at the last check: £30.00/TB. Prices are pounds sterling inc VAT.

3.5-inch SATA for the four LFF bays

HPE's revision note names SAS and SATA together at 18TB, its maximum-storage table prints the same 72TB for LFF SATA as for LFF SAS, and the 4 LFF cage is SAS/SATA. A SATA drive is therefore a match on interface where the controller runs SATA. The table shows 8 listings right now. Lowest £/TB at the last check: £20.49/TB.

2.5-inch SAS for the 8 SFF cage

The 8 SFF cage takes 2.5-inch drives, hard drives or SSDs. On the hard drive side, HPE's QuickSpecs list an "HPE 2.4TB SAS 12G Mission Critical 10K SFF SC 3-year Warranty 512e Multi Vendor HDD" for this server: a 10K SAS drive, not a 7.2K one, so check spindle speed as well as capacity on any row you pick. On the solid-state side, they list a 3.84TB SAS 12G Read Intensive SFF SC SSD.

Both HPE names carry SC. What that carrier label means, and why it matters for the controller, is set out on HPE ProLiant hard drives. The table below is 2.5-inch SAS hard drives sold under the maker's own name. The table shows 6 listings right now.

For SSDs at 3.84TB, HPE 3.84TB SSDs sets out the types HPE lists across its servers.

HPE option drives

What HPE's option QuickSpecs say about -B21 option drives, including the generation statements for three SSDs, is set out on HPE ProLiant hard drives and HPE 3.84TB SSDs.

Four drives in RAID: how much you keep

Four LFF bays make the RAID choice unusually visible: whatever a level reserves for protection comes out of only four drives. Put your drive size into the calculator to see what each level leaves usable across four LFF or eight SFF drives.

The DL380 Gen10 has its own page, HPE DL380 Gen10 hard drives.