DELL PowerEdge R730 2U rack server 2x E5-2650 v3 10C 2.3GHz 16GB DDR4 2x 1TB SATA H330

2U rack server with dual Xeon

The Dell PowerEdge R730 is a 2U rackmount server system built for data-centre deployment. It ships with two Intel Xeon E5-2650 v3 processors, each providing ten cores at 2.3 GHz, giving forty threads in total. Sixteen gigabytes of DDR4 memory are installed across the twenty-four available DIMM slots. Storage is handled by a PERC H330 controller with two 1 TB 7.2K SATA drives in hot-plug 2.5-inch bays.

Suited for virtualisation hosts; not for GPU compute

This configuration fits organisations refreshing virtualisation clusters or running memory-light databases where the existing sixteen gigabytes and dual-socket throughput are sufficient. The eight-bay chassis and H330 RAID controller support SATA and SAS media with RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 and 60. Buyers needing GPU acceleration, more than eight drive bays, or larger factory-installed memory should evaluate alternative platforms.

Max memory capacity of 16 GB limits consolidation

The critical specification is the installed and maximum memory ceiling of sixteen gigabytes. Although the motherboard physically accepts twenty-four DDR4 modules up to 128 GB each, the supplied processors and firmware restrict usable capacity to sixteen gigabytes total. Any workload demanding more RAM per host will require a different server or a processor upgrade before deployment.