DELL PowerEdge R730xd 24SFF 2x Xeon E5-2683 v4 384GB DDR4 rack server

Dense 24-bay compute platform

The Dell PowerEdge R730xd fits 24 small-form-factor drive bays and dual Xeon E5-2683 v4 processors in a 2U rack chassis. Thirty-eight-four gigabytes of DDR4 ECC memory are installed, with capacity to reach 768 gigabytes. A PERC H730 SAS controller manages RAID across SATA drives, while iDRAC8 Enterprise provides remote management.

Suits capacity-heavy workloads

This server targets teams running virtualisation clusters, software-defined storage or backup repositories that benefit from high drive-count density and large memory footprints. Buyers who need fewer than twelve drive bays or a smaller memory configuration will find less expensive alternatives. Workloads that depend on accelerator cards or the latest instruction-set extensions should evaluate newer platforms.

Twenty-four 2.5-inch drive bays

The single specification that decides fit is the 24-bay 2.5-inch chassis, which sets the maximum raw storage ceiling and the physical space available for hot-swap drives. If the deployment requires a different bay count or 3.5-inch form factors, this chassis cannot accommodate them.