DELL PowerEdge R730xd 12LFF 2x Xeon E5-2660V3 384GB DDR4 No Drive Rack Server

Dense 12-bay rack server for storage-heavy workloads

The Dell PowerEdge R730xd packs twelve 3.5-inch drive bays into a 2U chassis, driven by two Xeon E5-2660V3 processors at 2.6 GHz with 10 cores each and 384 GB of DDR4 ECC memory. A PERC H730 SAS controller manages RAID across SATA drives, while dual 10 GbE and dual 1 GbE ports handle network traffic. Integrated graphics and iDRAC8 Enterprise provide remote console access.

Suits archives, backups and cold-data tiers

Teams that need maximum spinning-disk capacity per rack unit will use every bay, and the 768 GB memory ceiling allows future RAM growth. Buyers who require more than two sockets, higher per-core frequency or direct PCIe-attached storage should evaluate other platforms. The 2400 count shown for installed storage is a specification field, not a fitted drive quantity, so drives must be sourced separately.

Twelve 3.5-inch bays set the capacity limit

The chassis fits exactly twelve large-form-factor drives, so raw capacity scales with the number and size of SATA disks populated. No smaller drive carriers or additional backplanes are included, making the bay count the single constraint that decides whether this server matches the storage target.