DELL PowerEdge R530 2U rack server E5-2650 V3 10C 2.3GHz 8GB 2x 2TB SAS H730

Dell PowerEdge R530 2U rack server

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. It ships with 8 GB of DDR4 memory across twelve DIMM slots and includes a 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 provide resiliency. The system also includes a DVD-ROM drive, iDRAC8 remote management and four 1 GbE network ports on a daughter card.

Suits small-business virtualization

This configuration suits organisations that need a dense 2U platform with hardware RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 for up to eight SAS or SATA drives. The single-socket layout and 8 GB base memory limit immediate multi-tenant virtualisation density, so buyers who need two processors or larger memory footprints from day one should look at dual-socket configurations. The PCIe 3.0 and 2.0 slots support up to five expansion cards, but GPU-dense compute is not the design focus.

Single-socket Xeon E5-2650 v3 limits processor

The installed Xeon E5-2650 v3 provides ten cores and twenty threads, yet the motherboard supports a maximum of two processors and only one is populated. Memory capacity per processor is six DIMM slots, so total system memory cannot exceed 384 GB without adding the second CPU. If the workload demands more than twenty threads or requires the full 384 GB ceiling immediately, the single-socket starting point becomes the decisive constraint.