DELL PowerEdge R730 2U rack server 2× Xeon E5-2680 v4 2.4 GHz 14-core 768 GB DDR4 8× 400 GB SSD H730

Dual-socket 14-core server for virtualisation

The PowerEdge R730 fits a 2U rack slot and delivers two Xeon E5-2680 v4 processors running at 2.4 GHz with 3.3 GHz turbo. Seventy-six-eight gigabytes of DDR4 registered ECC memory occupy 24 DIMM slots, leaving room to reach the 1.5 TB ceiling. Eight 400 GB SATA SSDs sit behind a PERC H730 controller that supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60.

Hot-swap power and networking built in

Dual 750 W platinum supplies and hot-swap drive bays keep the chassis running during component changes. A quad-port daughter card adds two 1 GbE and two 10 Gb SFP+ links without consuming a PCIe slot. iDRAC8 Enterprise provides remote console, power control and firmware updates over a dedicated management port. Rails and bezel are included for immediate rack mounting.

Sustained throughput for database and VDI nodes

The 14-core CPUs maintain 2.4 GHz base clocks under continuous multi-threaded load, while the H730 battery-backed cache absorbs write bursts across the eight SSDs. DDR4 2400 MHz bandwidth feeds large working sets without swapping. This configuration targets steady-state database, virtual desktop and HPC data-node workloads rather than short burst benchmarks.