DELL PowerEdge R530 2U rack server 2x E5-2630 v3 2.4GHz 16GB DDR4 3x 4TB SAS H330

Dell PowerEdge R530 2U rack server

This 2U rack server ships with dual Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 eight-core processors running at 2.4GHz, 16GB of DDR4 memory and three 4TB 7.2K SAS drives on a PERC H330 RAID controller. It includes redundant 750W power supplies, a DVD-ROM drive and iDRAC8 remote management in a chassis that supports up to eight 3.5-inch hot-plug bays.

Suits buyers who need dense SAS storage in 2U

The platform provides twelve DIMM slots and a maximum memory capacity of 384GB, five PCIe slots (three at 3.0 and two at 2.0) and four 1GbE ports on a daughter card. Builders who need more storage bays than eight, GPU compute density or single-thread frequencies above 2.4GHz should look at something else.

Three 4TB SAS drives on H330 RAID

The installed drives deliver 12TB of raw capacity with RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 and 60 support, and the controller handles SAS or SATA media. The backplane accepts up to 80TB total, so the decision point is whether the initial three-drive set and H330 feature set match the workload.