Dell PowerEdge R960 32SFF
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Condition
Refurbished
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CPU
2×8GB DDR4 RDIMM 2133MHz
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RAM
noHDD (up to 8 HDD 2.5'' SFF)
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Condition
Refurbished
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CPU
2×8GB DDR4 RDIMM 2133MHz
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RAM
noHDD (up to 8 HDD 2.5'' SFF)
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Condition
Refurbished
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CPU
2×8GB DDR4 RDIMM 2133MHz
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RAM
noHDD (up to 8 HDD 2.5'' SFF)
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Condition
Refurbished
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CPU
2×8GB DDR4 RDIMM 2133MHz
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RAM
noHDD (up to 8 HDD 2.5'' SFF)
Processor
Up to 4 x 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, up to 60 cores per processor
Memory
DDR5: up to 64 x RDIMM (16 TB), speed up to 4800 MT/s, registered ECC only
Storage controllers
- Internal RAID: PERC H965i, PERC H755, PERC H355, HBA355i, HBA465i
- External HBA: HBA355e, HBA465e
- Boot: BOSS-N1 HWRAID 2 x M.2 NVMe SSDs or USB
- Software RAID: S160
Drive bays
Front bays
- Up to 32 x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA (HDD/SSD)
- Up to 24 x 2.5-inch NVMe (SSD)
- Up to 16 x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA + 8 x 2.5-inch NVMe
Power supplies
- 2800 W Titanium
- 2400 W Platinum
- 1800 W Titanium
- 1400 W Platinum
- 1100 W Titanium
- 1100 W LVDC
Cooling and fans
Air cooling or Direct Liquid Cooling; up to 6 hot-plug dual-fan modules
Dimensions
- Height: 174.3 mm (6.86 inches)
- Width: 482 mm (18.97 inches)
- Depth: up to 883.195 mm (34.77 inches)
- Weight: not specified in the provided spec sheet
Form factor
4U rack server
Embedded management
- iDRAC9
- iDRAC Direct
- iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish
- iDRAC Service Module
- Quick Sync 2 wireless module
Security
- Cryptographically signed firmware
- Data at Rest Encryption with SEDs and local or external key management
- Secure Boot
- Secured Component Verification with hardware integrity check
- Secure Erase
- Silicon Root of Trust
- System Lockdown, requires iDRAC9 Enterprise or Datacenter
- TPM 2.0 FIPS, CC-TCG certified, TPM 2.0 China NationZ
Networking
- 2 x 1GbE LOM card (optional)
- 1 x OCP NIC 3.0 card (optional)
GPU options
Up to 4 x 400 W double-width GPUs
Ports
Front ports
- 1 x iDRAC Direct (Micro-AB USB) port
- 1 x USB 2.0
- 1 x VGA
Internal ports
- 1 x USB 3.0 (optional)
Rear ports
- 1 x Dedicated iDRAC Ethernet port
- 1 x USB 2.0
- 1 x USB 3.0
- 1 x Serial (optional)
- 1 x VGA (optional for Direct Liquid Cooling)
PCIe
Up to 12 x PCIe Gen5 slots
Operating systems
- Canonical Ubuntu Server LTS
- Microsoft Windows Server with Hyper-V
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
- VMware ESXi
- Condition
- New
- Manufacturer
- Dell
- Form factor
- 4U
- Remote-Control-Modul
- iDRAC 9 Express
- Supported CPU
- 4 x 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable
- Supported RAM
- DDR5 DIMM 64 slots (16384 GB)
- Power supply unit
- 1 × Dell 1100W Hot-Plug
- RAID controller
- RAID Dell S160
- HDD bays
- noHDD (up to Array HDD 2.5'' SFF)
- NIC card
- 2 port 1Gb/s (Integrated)
Need a technical consultation on choosing a server?
Submit a requestDell PowerEdge R960 32SFF is a high-end 4U four-socket rack server storage configuration with 32 front 2.5-inch SFF hot-swap drive positions. It is designed for large databases, analytics, application consolidation, and storage-rich mission-critical environments, combining controller-backed SAS/SATA SFF storage with Dell enterprise management and a platform sized for the target workload.
Key features:
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32 front SFF drive bays: Provides 32 front-accessible 2.5-inch SFF hot-swap bays, allowing supported drives to be serviced without opening the chassis and helping reduce planned maintenance time.
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SAS/SATA-only 16SFF/32SFF topology: This basket refers to the controller-backed 2.5-inch SAS/SATA layout. The PowerEdge R960 uses separate front architectures for 24 U.2 NVMe, hybrid, or sixteen EDSFF E3.S NVMe configurations.
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Dell PERC and HBA integration: Supported Dell PERC or HBA options provide validated RAID, pass-through, and drive-management paths for the selected SAS/SATA backplane. The exact controller must match the chassis, backplane, drive protocol, and required RAID level.
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High-end four-socket scale-up platform: Up to four 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, extensive DDR5 memory, PCIe Gen5 expansion, redundant power architecture, and iDRAC9 target the most demanding scale-up applications.
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Hot-swap serviceability and management: Front hot-swap access, drive-status indicators, iDRAC9, and Dell OpenManage tools help administrators monitor health, replace supported drives, and manage the server lifecycle with less operational disruption.
Use cases:
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Large databases and data warehouses: Combines four-socket compute with a high SFF drive count for database, warehouse, and business-intelligence workloads.
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Application consolidation: Supports consolidation of large ERP, CRM, and batch-processing estates on a resilient scale-up platform.
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Virtualization and VDI: Provides memory, CPU, and local drive density for large virtualized environments and virtual desktop deployments.
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Analytics and HPC: Can support data-intensive analytics and selected HPC workloads that benefit from broad PCIe expansion and dense local storage.
Dell PowerEdge R960 32SFF is a precisely defined 32-bay SFF storage configuration for organizations that need controller-backed SAS/SATA SFF density for scale-up systems, Dell-validated connectivity, and dependable lifecycle management.
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