DELL PowerEdge R650 1U rack server 2x Xeon Gold 5317 3.0GHz 12-core 1TB DDR4 H755 10x 600GB SAS 2x 1400W

Dual Xeon Gold 5317 compute density

The Dell PowerEdge R650 is a 1U rack server populated with two Intel Xeon Gold 5317 processors. Each chip runs at 3.0 GHz base with a 3.6 GHz turbo frequency and provides twelve cores, giving twenty-four cores total for virtualisation hosts, database nodes or dense private-cloud clusters. The system ships with 1 TB of registered ECC DDR4-2933 memory across thirty-two 32 GB modules, leaving headroom to the 2 TB maximum. Dual 1400 W platinum hot-swap supplies and iDRAC9 Enterprise remote management complete the platform.

PERC H755 RAID and 10GbE networking

The bundled PERC H755 controller adds 8 GB of non-volatile cache with battery backup and supports RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 across the ten front-accessible 2.5-inch drive bays. Ten Dell enterprise 600 GB 10K SAS drives at 12 Gb/s are pre-installed, delivering immediate high-IOPS capacity. A Broadcom 57412 dual-port 10 GbE SFP+ OCP 3.0 card provides low-latency network connectivity for east-west traffic or storage replication. ReadyRails and a front bezel are included for rapid rack integration.

Suits dense virtualisation and database tiers

This configuration targets teams that need maximum core count and fast local storage in a single rack unit — typical for hypervisor clusters, SQL servers or VDI hosts. Buyers who require larger drive capacities, all-flash arrays or GPU acceleration should evaluate alternative chassis or drive selections. Organisations without 10 GbE SFP+ switching infrastructure will not utilise the onboard network ports. Workloads demanding more than 2 TB of memory or more than two sockets fall outside this platform.