DELL PowerEdge R530 2U rack server 2× E5-2630 V3 2.4 GHz 16 GB DDR4 2× 2 TB SAS H730

DELL PowerEdge R530 2U rack server

The DELL PowerEdge R530 is a 2U rack server built around two Intel Xeon E5-2630 V3 eight-core processors running at 2.4 GHz. It ships with 16 GB of DDR4 memory across twelve DIMM slots and includes a Dell PERC H730 RAID controller with 1 GB cache. Two 2 TB 7.2K SAS drives occupy two of the eight hot-plug 3.5-inch bays, while dual 750 W redundant power supplies and a DVD ROM complete the chassis.

Suited for and not suited

This server suits organisations that need a dense, two-socket platform with hardware RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 or 60 and room to grow internal storage to 80 TB. It also fits workloads that can use the four onboard 1 GbE ports and up to five PCIe slots, three of them 3.0 and two 2.0. Buyers who require more than two processor sockets, integrated GPU accelerators or boot drives that are not SAS or SATA should evaluate other platforms.

Installed memory capacity decides fit

The system arrives with 16 GB of DDR4 installed and the specification lists a maximum installed capacity of 16 GB, though the platform supports up to 384 GB when fully populated. If the target application needs more memory than the factory configuration provides, additional DIMMs must be sourced separately before deployment.