DELL PowerEdge R530 2U Rack Server E5-2650 V3 10-Core 2.3GHz 48GB DDR4 3x 4TB SAS H330

Enterprise compute density

The Dell PowerEdge R530 is a 2U rack server built around a single Intel Xeon E5-2650 V3 ten-core processor running at 2.3 GHz. Forty-eight gigabytes of DDR4 memory fill half the twelve available DIMM slots. Three 4 TB SAS drives at 7.2 K RPM connect through a PERC H330 RAID controller that supports levels 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 and 60. The system ships without an operating system.

Expansion within the chassis

Eight 3.5-inch hot-plug bays accept SAS or SATA drives, leaving five bays open for future capacity growth up to 80 TB total. Two 750 W redundant hot-swap power supplies free the build from single-point power failure. Five PCIe slots — three at 3.0 and two at 2.0 — accommodate additional controllers or networking cards. A four-port 1 GbE daughter card and iDRAC8 remote management are integrated.

Sustained operation profile

Redundant power supplies and hot-plug drive bays keep the server running during component replacement. The H330 controller manages parity rebuilds across large SAS volumes without taking the array offline. DDR4 memory operates at speeds up to 2400 MT/s limited by the installed processor. The 2U form factor concentrates compute and storage while leaving rack space for neighbouring units.