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Dell PowerEdge T160

3U Tower Server for Near-Edge and SMB applications

Dell PowerEdge T160 seen from the front left: a compact tower with an unpainted steel side panel, moulded grey corner bumpers and a black perforated filter bezel across the front
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Overview

The Dell PowerEdge T160 is a compact tower server in PowerEdge portfolio. With space-saving chassis and powerful computing, it is designed to support the growing business of SMB and Near-Edge customers.

The Dell PowerEdge T160 is the newly-designed space-saving tower server with filter bezel for SMB and Near-Edge customers. Featuring the latest Intel Xeon-E 2400 series processors, DDR5 memory, NVMe BOSS, Energy Star 4.0 PSU, the T160 is ready to support customers growing businesses. Ideal for:

  • Mailing and Messaging
  • Collaboration and Sharing
  • Near-Edge Applications

Space-Saving and Protection for Near-Edge Deployment

For Near-Edge applications including deployment in warehouses, retail offices, or a simple desk or shelf, the T160 adapts to any environment with its sub-17-Liter chassis and office-friendly acoustic performance. In addition, the T160 is equipped with a filter bezel that shields the inner hardware from dust and grease, ensuring unobstructed airflow to main components which results in fewer failures or performance issues, better acoustics, and efficient power consumption.

Commitment to Sustainability

By incorporating recycled materials, the T160 helps customers reduce their environmental footprint and advance their sustainability goals. Moreover, the T160 significantly reduces the chemical usage with an unpainted steel exterior to further contribute to a cleaner and healthier environment.

Cyber Resilient Architecture for Zero Trust IT environment & operations

Security is integrated into every phase of the PowerEdge lifecycle, including protected supply chain and factory-to-site integrity assurance. Silicon-based root of trust anchors end-to-end boot resilience while Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and role-based access controls ensure trusted operations.

Increase efficiency and accelerate operations with autonomous collaboration

The Dell OpenManage systems management portfolio tames the complexity of managing and securing IT infrastructure. Using Dell Technologies’ intuitive end-to-end tools, IT can deliver a secure, integrated experience by reducing process and information silos in order to focus on growing the business. The Dell OpenManage portfolio is the key to your innovation engine, unlocking the tools and automation that help you scale, manage, and protect your technology environment.

Sustainability

From recycled materials in our products and packaging, to thoughtful, innovative options for energy efficiency, the PowerEdge portfolio is designed to make, deliver, and recycle products to help reduce the carbon footprint and lower your operation costs. We even make it easy to retire legacy systems responsibly with Dell Technologies.

Rest easier with Dell Technologies Services

Rest easier with Dell Technologies Services. Maximize your PowerEdge Servers with comprehensive services ranging from Consulting, to ProDeploy and ProSupport suites, Data Migration and more – available across 170 countries and backed by our 60K+ employees and partners.

T160 front: a full-height black mesh filter bezel with the Dell logo, power button, status panel, one USB port and an iDRAC Direct port along the top edge
Front, filter bezel fitted
T160 from the front right, showing the plain unpainted steel side panel and the mesh filter bezel wrapping the front face
Front right
T160 rear panel: two PCIe slot openings and an orange release latch at the top, a large fan grille, USB 2.0 and USB 3.2 ports, the dedicated iDRAC Ethernet port, two Ethernet ports, serial and VGA connectors, and the cabled power inlet at the bottom
Rear I/O

Features

Innovate where you never thought possible

Deploy massive compute anywhere with the latest family of powerful, secure servers engineered to accelerate automation and innovation.

Your innovation engine

Dell PowerEdge T160 is a one-socket cutting-edge 3U, 17-liter chassis tower server crafted for Near-Edge and SMB to empower businesses for future growth.

Dell PowerEdge rack, tower and modular servers lined up against a hexagon-panel backdrop
Inside the T160 with the side panel removed: cabled 3.5-inch drive bays labelled HDD 3 and HDD 4 at the top left, a drive and BOSS carrier below them, a green system board carrying one processor heatsink and DDR5 DIMM slots, a single fan module on the right and a cabled power supply along the bottom
Inside the T160: one socket, four DDR5 UDIMM slots and up to two cabled fans.

Compact and powerful

Redefine space-saving design without compromising performance.

  • Compact chassis with office friendly acoustic performance.
  • Easy-to-manage filter bezels shield from dust and grease.
  • Enterprise-level server features and capabilities with optimal price and flexible upgrade options.
  • Built from recycled material and less chemical usage with unpainted steel.

Systems Management and Security Solutions

OpenManage systems management

Tame the complexity of your IT environment with Dell Technologies OpenManage systems management portfolio which uses tools and solutions to discover, deploy, monitor, manage, update and secure your PowerEdge infrastructure.

Intelligent Automation

Integrate tools across your portfolio with PowerEdge iDRAC, OpenManage Enterprise and CloudIQ solutions that help organizations automate their server lifecycles, optimize operations and scale efficiently.

Built-in security

Stay protected at every phase of the product lifecycle with the PowerEdge cyber resilient architecture that helps accelerate your adoption of a Zero Trust security strategy. From the silicon root of trust, secured component verification, signed firmware and drift detection to BIOS recovery and dynamic system lockdown, you can rest assured that your servers are secure.

Technical Specifications

Dell PowerEdge T160 Specifications
Processors One Intel Xeon E-2400 series processor with up to 8 cores or
One Intel Pentium G7400/ G7400T processor with up to 2 cores
Memory
  • 4 DDR5 DIMM slots, supports UDIMM up to 32 GB per DIMM, speeds up to 4400 MT/s
  • Supports unregistered ECC DDR5 DIMMs only
Storage controllers
  • Internal: HBA355i Adapter, PERC H355 Adapter, PERC H755 Adapter
  • Internal Boot: Internal USB 3.0, or Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem (BOSS-N1) HWRAID 2 x M.2 SSDs
  • External HBAs (non-RAID): HBA355e Adpt
  • Software Controller: S160
Drive bays
  • Front drive bays:
    • Up to 3 x 3.5-inch cable SAS/SATA HDD/SSD, max 48 TB
    • Up to 3 x 3.5-inch + 2 x 2.5-inch cable SAS/SATA HDD/SSD, max 63.36 TB
Power supplies
  • 300 W Bronze 100—240 V AC, cabled
  • 500 W Platinum 100—240 V AC, cabled
Cooling Options Air cooling
Fans
  • One Standard (STD) fan and one optional High performance (HPR) fan
  • Up to two cabled fans
Dimension
  • Height – 332.5 mm (13.09 inches)
  • Width – 132.52 mm (5.21 inches)
  • Depth – 408.8 mm (16.09 inches) (with bezel)
Form Factor 3U tower server
Embedded management
  • iDRAC9
  • iDRAC Direct
  • iDRAC RESTful API with Redfish
  • iDRAC Service Manual
Bezel Filter bezel
OpenManage Software
  • OpenManage Enterprise
  • OpenManage Power Manager plugin
  • OpenManage Service plugin
  • OpenManage Update Manager plugin
  • CloudIQ for PowerEdge plug in
  • OpenManage Enterprise Integration for VMware vCenter
  • OpenManage Integration for Microsoft System Center
  • OpenManage Integration with Windows Admin Center
Mobility OpenManage Mobile
OpenManage Integrations
  • BMC Truesight
  • Microsoft System Center
  • OpenManage Integration with ServiceNow
  • Red Hat Ansible Modules
  • Terraform Providers
  • VMware vCenter and vRealize Operations Manager
Security
  • Cryptographically signed firmware
  • Data at Rest Encryption (SEDs with local or external key mgmt)
  • Secure Boot
  • Secured Component Verification (Hardware integrity check)
  • Secure Erase
  • Secured-core server
  • Silicon Root of Trust
  • System Lockdown (requires iDRAC9 Enterprise or Datacenter)
  • TPM 2.0 FIPS, CC-TCG certified, TPM 2.0 China NationZ
Embedded NIC 2 x 1 GbE LOM card
GPU Options N/A
Ports
  • Front Ports
    • 1 x iDRAC Direct (Micro-AB USB) port
    • 1 x USB 3.2 Gen1
  • Rear Ports
    • 3 x USB 2.0
    • 3 x USB 3.2 Gen1
    • 1 x Dedicated iDRAC Ethernet port
    • 1 x Serial
    • 1 x VGA
    • 2 x Ethernet ports
  • Internal Ports
    • 1 x USB 3.2 Gen1
PCIe
  • Up to two PCIe slots
    • Slot 1: 1 x8 slot with x4 bandwidth, Half Height, Half Length
    • Slot 2: 1 x16 slot with x16 bandwidth, Half Height, Half Length
Operating System and Hypervisors
  • Canonical Ubuntu Server LTS
  • Microsoft Windows Server with Hyper-V
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
  • VMware ESXi
OEM-ready version availabe From bezel to BIOS to packaging, your servers can look and feel as if they were designed and built by you.

Pricing Notes: Pricing and product availability subject to change without notice.

Support & Services

Dell Technologies offers complete end-to-end services

Optimizing the IT lifecycle is vital. We have expert services for all lifecycle phases that save you time and resources, reduce effort, and improve your IT experience.

Consulting

Consulting services give expert guidance to help you grow, optimize and transform your IT environment at your own pace and budget. Dell employ a broad range of certified consultants and engineers, backed by program management teams, who can deliver deep technical expertise. Dell gives you the confidence that your project will be done right and on time.

Support

Gain the freedom to focus on your business transformation with the support expertise and insights Dell is known for across the globe. Choose the right support based on the criticality of specific systems with available automated predictive analysis, collaborative third-party assistance and a Technology Service Manager.

Deployment

ProDeploy Enterprise Suite helps you get more out of technology starting on day one. Residency Service provides ongoing transition assistance to accelerate adoption. Trust our experts to lead deployments from basic hardware installations through planning, configuration and complex integrations to help you achieve business outcomes today and tomorrow.

Training & Certification

Education Services offers an expansive suite of training services with multiple delivery methods, including instructor-led, self-paced online and virtual instructor-led training. With comprehensive and flexible training programs, we make it easy to ensure your staff has the skills they need to successfully manage and utilize your new technology to its full potential.

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