DELL PowerEdge R730 2U rack server 2x Xeon E5-2640 v3 2.6GHz 512GB DDR4 8x 300GB SAS

Dual Xeon E5-2640 v3 server

The Dell PowerEdge R730 is a 2U rack system equipped with two 8-core Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3 processors running at 2.6 GHz with 3.4 GHz turbo. It ships with 512 GB of DDR4 2133 MHz registered ECC memory across 16 modules. The platform targets midsize and large enterprise workloads such as databases, virtual desktop infrastructure and high-performance computing data nodes.

Check power, rack space and network cabling

Verify that your facility can supply two 750 W platinum power supplies with the required connectors and that a 2U rack slot with ready rails is available. Confirm the SAS backplane matches the eight 2.5-inch drive bays and that SFP+ transceivers or copper cables suit the dual 10 Gb and dual 1 Gb Ethernet ports on the X520/I350 daughter card. Ensure iDRAC 8 Enterprise remote management integrates with your existing console.

Fits dense compute clusters

The PERC H730 controller with 1 GB cache supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 plus pass-through, freeing the CPUs from storage parity calculations. Eight 300 GB 10 K SAS drives provide high-throughput local capacity without a separate array. Quad-port networking consolidates management, storage and application traffic in one mezzanine card. Twenty-four DIMM slots allow expansion to 1.5 TB when workloads grow.