DELL PowerEdge R430 rack server E5-2603v3 1.6GHz 24GB 3x 600GB SAS H330

Compact rack server for light workloads

The Dell PowerEdge R430 is a 1U rack server fitted with a single Intel Xeon E5-2603v3 six-core processor running at 1.6GHz. It includes 24GB of DDR4 memory and three 600GB 15K SAS drives managed by a Perc H330 RAID controller supporting levels 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 and 60. The system ships with a 550W redundant power supply, a DVD-ROM drive and four 1GbE network ports, making it suited to small-business virtualisation, file serving or test environments.

Verify rack depth and drive bay needs

Before ordering, confirm the 26.7-inch chassis depth fits your rack and that the eight 2.5-inch hot-plug bays match your storage plan; only three bays are populated with the supplied 600GB SAS drives. The board provides twelve DDR4 DIMM slots with a 24GB installed capacity and a 384GB maximum, so additional memory must be DDR4 modules up to 2400MT/s. Two PCIe 3.0 slots are available for add-in cards, and iDRAC8 Express is included for remote management.

Steady operation within thermal envelope

Under sustained load the single 1.6GHz six-core CPU and 15K SAS drives operate within the cooling capacity of the 1U chassis and the single 550W redundant supply. The H330 controller maintains RAID parity calculations without throttling during extended rebuilds or continuous write workloads. iDRAC8 provides ongoing thermal and power telemetry so administrators can monitor long-term stability without interrupting service.