Genuine HP Proliant DL380 G6 G7 DL385 G6 G7 Server Access Rail Kit 30in Length Left and Right 487250-001 (Renewed)

[Music] hello i'm scott flowers with cloud ninjas and today we're here to talk about hp proliant dl 380 gen 6 server memory upgrades and how to load the system for starters the hp proliant dl380 gen 6 has 18 dimm slots and accepts one type of memory ecc registered also known as rdims it does not accept load reduced memory also known as lr dimms that's accepted by hp and its 8th gen servers so as far as the maximum capacity according to hp spec sheet you can use 288 gigabytes via 18 16 gigs at a total of 1600 megahertz however we've done some tinkering and played around and found out you can actually use 384 gigabytes if you put in 1232 gigs and the reason you can only put in 12 32 gigs as opposed to say putting in 18 and filling up all the slots is that something called the rank rule and if you're not familiar with the rank rule uh it simply states that for each memory channel you can o