DELL PowerEdge R650xs 1U rack server 2x Xeon Gold 6330 2.0GHz 28-core 128GB DDR4 10x 1.8TB SAS H745

Compact 1U dual-Xeon server

The Dell PowerEdge R650xs is a 1U rack server equipped with two Intel Xeon Gold 6330 processors, each running at 2.0 GHz with 28 cores and a 3.1 GHz turbo frequency. It ships with 128 GB of DDR4 2933 MHz registered ECC memory across eight 16 GB modules and can scale to 1 TB. Ten 2.5-inch 1.8 TB 10K SAS drives connect through a PERC H745 controller with 4 GB NV cache and battery backup.

Suited for dense virtualisation and analytics

This configuration targets workloads that demand high core counts and fast local storage in a single rack unit, such as virtualisation clusters, cloud infrastructure and dense data analytics. The quad-port 1 GbE OCP 3.0 adapter and iDRAC9 Enterprise simplify network integration and remote management. Buyers who need GPU acceleration for AI training, higher single-thread frequencies or larger memory footprints per socket should evaluate alternative platforms.

18 TB raw SAS capacity with RAID flexibility

The ten 1.8 TB drives provide 18 TB of raw capacity and support RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 through the H745 controller. This array comfortably handles mixed read-write workloads, database logging and virtual machine images where 10K SAS latency is acceptable. It runs out when workloads require NVMe latency, all-flash capacity or sustained throughput beyond the 12 Gb/s SAS interface.