DELL PowerEdge R530 2U rack server E5-2650 V3 10-core 2.3GHz 24GB DDR4 2x 600GB SAS H730

2U rack server for dense workloads

The Dell PowerEdge R530 fits eight 3.5-inch hot-plug drives in a 2U rack form factor. A single Intel Xeon E5-2650 V3 with ten cores at 2.3 GHz and 24 GB of DDR4 memory powers virtualisation, database or file-serving tasks. Dual 750 W redundant supplies keep the platform running if one unit fails. The PERC H730 controller manages RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 across SAS or SATA media.

Sustained throughput with 15 K SAS spindles

Two factory-installed 600 GB 15 K SAS drives deliver consistent random I/O under continuous load rather than only in short bursts. The H730's 1 GB cache absorbs write spikes while the 12 Gbps controller link prevents the bus from becoming the bottleneck. Twelve DIMM slots allow memory to scale to 384 GB when the second processor is added, keeping large working sets in DDR4 instead of paging to disk. Four 1 GbE ports on the daughter card sustain network throughput for multi-client access.

Hot-plug bays and redundant power simplify daily ops

Eight front-accessible 3.5-inch bays let technicians swap drives without tools or downtime. The 2U chassis slides into standard racks and includes a DVD-ROM for legacy media installation. Five PCIe slots — three at 3.0 and two at 2.0 — accommodate additional NICs, HBAs or GPU accelerators as needs grow. iDRAC8 with Lifecycle Controller provides out-of-band monitoring, remote console and firmware updates from a single browser interface. Matrox G200eR2 graphics supply basic video for local troubleshooting.