PowerEdge R960
The Dell PowerEdge R960 is a 4U rack server engineered for extreme performance, scalability, and mission-critical workloads. Powered by 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with up to 480 cores per system, it is optimized for large databases, AI/ML, HPC, and in-memory computing.
SPECIFICATION
Category Details Form Factor 4U rack server Processors Up to 4 × 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable CPUs, up to 60 cores per processor, with optional Intel® QAT Memory • 64 × DDR5 DIMM slots
• Up to 16 TB (RDIMM)
• 4800 MT/s speeds
• ECC DDR5 only
Storage Controllers • Internal: PERC H965i, H755, H355, HBA355i, HBA465ii
• Boot: BOSS-N1 (2 × M.2 NVMe SSD RAID or USB)
• External: HBA355e, HBA465e
• Software RAID: S160
Drive Bays (Front) • Up to 8 × 2.5" SAS/SATA (122.88 TB)
• Up to 16 × 2.5" SAS/SATA (245.76 TB)
• Up to 24 × 2.5" NVMe (368.64 TB)
• Mixed: 16 × 2.5" SAS/SATA + 8 × 2.5" NVMe (368.64 TB)
• Up to 32 × 2.5" SAS/SATA (491.52 TB)
Drive Bays (Rear) N/A Power Supplies • 1100W Titanium (AC/DC)
• 1400W Platinum
• 1800W Titanium
• 2400W Platinum
• 2800W Titanium
• 1100W LVDC –48 to –60 VDC (all hot-swap redundant)
Cooling Options Air cooling or optional Direct Liquid Cooling (DLC) Fans Up to 6 × hot-plug dual-fan modules Dimensions H: 174.3 mm (6.86")
W: 482 mm (18.97")
D: 869.2 mm (34.22") without bezel / 883.2 mm (34.77") with bezel
Weight ~50 – 56 kg (110 – 123 lbs), depending on config Embedded Management iDRAC9, Redfish RESTful API, iDRAC Direct, iDRAC Service Module, Quick Sync 2 wireless OpenManage Software CloudIQ, OpenManage Enterprise, Power Manager, Update Manager, VMware vCenter integration, MS System Center, Windows Admin Center, Ansible, Terraform, ServiceNow Security Signed firmware, Secure Boot, Secure Erase, SEDs (Data-at-Rest Encryption), Secured Component Verification, Silicon Root of Trust, System Lockdown, TPM 2.0 (FIPS/CC/China NationZ) Networking 2 × 1 GbE LOM (optional)
1 × OCP 3.0 slot
GPU Options Up to 4 × 400W double-width GPUs PCIe Slots Up to 12 × PCIe Gen5 slots (mix of x16/x8, FH/HH, double-width support) Ports (Front) 1 × iDRAC Direct (Micro-USB), 1 × USB 2.0, 1 × VGA Ports (Rear) 1 × iDRAC Ethernet, 1 × USB 2.0, 1 × USB 3.0, 1 × Serial (opt.), 1 × VGA (opt. for DLC) Ports (Internal) 1 × USB 3.0 (optional) Operating Systems Ubuntu Server LTS, Microsoft Windows Server with Hyper-V, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, VMware ESXi