DELL PowerEdge R730xd 24 Bay 2.5" 2U Rack Server 2x Xeon E5-2660 v3 2.6GHz 10-Core 768GB DDR4 24x 600GB HDD

24-Bay 2U Server for Storage-Heavy Workloads

The Dell PowerEdge R730xd is a 2U rack server built around twenty-four 2.5-inch drive bays. It ships with two Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3 processors, each running at 2.6 GHz with ten cores, and 768 GB of DDR4 registered ECC memory. This configuration targets midsize and large enterprises running data warehouses, VDI, databases or high-performance computing data nodes.

Sustained Load Behaviour with Dual 10-Core CPUs

Under continuous demand the two 10-core Xeon processors operate at a base frequency of 2.6 GHz and can reach 3.3 GHz turbo when thermal headroom allows. The 768 GB DDR4 2133 MHz memory pool feeds all twenty cores without swapping, while the PERC H730 controller with 1 GB cache and battery backup maintains write throughput during extended RAID rebuilds or database checkpointing. Dual 750 W platinum power supplies share the load, keeping voltage stable when every drive and core is active.

SAS 12 Gb/s Interface Limits in a 24-Drive Chassis

The backplane connects twenty-four SAS drives to the H730 controller at 12 Gb/s per lane, so aggregate bandwidth scales with the number of active spindles. Each installed 600 GB 10K SAS drive delivers its rated sequential speed, but the shared bus means simultaneous heavy streams from all twenty-four bays will saturate the controller before individual drives hit their ceiling. The quad-port X520/I350 network daughter card adds two 10 Gb SFP+ and two 1 GbE links, letting the server push stored data onto the fabric without becoming the bottleneck.