DELL PowerEdge R430 1U rack server E5-2603 v3 1.6GHz 8GB 8x 300GB SAS H730

Dell PowerEdge R430 1U server

The Dell PowerEdge R430 is a 1U rack server designed for dense compute environments. It ships with a single Intel Xeon E5-2603 v3 six-core processor running at 1.6 GHz and 8 GB of DDR4 memory. The chassis includes eight hot-plug 2.5-inch drive bays populated with 300 GB 15 K SAS drives and a PERC H730 RAID controller with 1 GB cache. A single 550 W redundant power supply and iDRAC8 remote management are fitted.

Suits workloads needing dense SAS storage

This configuration fits organisations that want high spindle-count SAS storage in a 1U form factor with hardware RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 or 60. Buyers who need more than two PCIe 3.0 slots for additional controllers or accelerators should look at a larger chassis. The single-socket layout also limits maximum memory to 384 GB, so environments requiring higher per-node capacity will need a different platform.

Eight 2.5-inch hot-plug SAS bays

The defining specification is the eight-bay 2.5-inch hot-plug backplane paired with the PERC H730 12 Gbps RAID controller supporting RAID 0/1/5/6/10/50/60. This combination determines whether the server can deliver the IOPS and redundancy profile your workload requires.