DELL PowerEdge R530 2U rack server E5-2650 V3 10C 2.3GHz 8GB 2x 600GB SAS H730

2U rack server for dense workloads

The PowerEdge R530 is a 2U rack server built around a single Intel Xeon E5-2650 V3 ten-core processor at 2.3GHz with 8GB of DDR4 memory. It ships with two 600GB 15K SAS drives on a PERC H730 RAID controller and supports up to eight 3.5-inch hot-plug bays. Dual 750W redundant power supplies and iDRAC8 remote management suit small-to-medium database or virtualization tasks.

Tool-less drive bays and rail kit simplify setup

Eight hot-plug bays accept SAS or SATA drives without tools and the included rail kit secures the 2U chassis in standard racks. The PERC H730 supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60; configure the array before loading data to avoid rebuild delays. Memory installs in matched sets across twelve DIMM slots, six per processor, so populate evenly when expanding beyond the factory 8GB.

PCIe 3.0 lanes and SAS 6Gbps cap throughput

Five PCIe slots provide three PCIe 3.0 and two PCIe 2.0 connections for additional NICs, HBAs or GPUs, but total bandwidth is shared with the chipset. The onboard SAS backplane runs at 6Gbps, limiting sequential throughput on the 15K drives, and the single 1GbE daughter card restricts network-heavy clusters. Maximum memory reaches 384GB with two processors installed; single-CPU configurations halve that ceiling.