Dell PowerEdge R730xd 12LFF Xeon E5-2690 v4 384GB DDR4

12-bay 2U server for dense storage

The Dell PowerEdge R730xd packs twelve 3.5-inch drive bays into a 2U rack chassis, driven by a single Xeon E5-2690 v4 processor at 2.6 GHz with fourteen cores and 35 MB cache. It ships with 384 GB of DDR4 ECC registered memory and a PERC H730 SAS controller, while dual 1100 W supplies and iDRAC8 Enterprise remote management come standard. No drives are installed, so the storage array is built to order.

Suits archives and backup targets.

This platform fits workloads that value high capacity per rack unit such as media archives, backup repositories or surveillance storage where twelve large SATA drives deliver the needed throughput. Buyers who need more than twelve bays or who require a second processor from day one should evaluate larger chassis options. The single-CPU configuration also limits maximum memory to 768 GB, so applications that scale beyond that ceiling will need a different system.

Twelve 3.5-inch bays define the storage ceiling

The defining constraint is the twelve-bay 3.5-inch backplane paired with the PERC H730 controller, which together set the raw capacity limit and RAID flexibility for the deployment. If the project demands more spindles or a different drive form factor, the chassis cannot accommodate it without a platform change.