DELL PowerEdge R730xd 24SFF 2x Xeon E5-2683 v4 512GB DDR4

Dense 24-bay 2U server

The Dell PowerEdge R730xd packs twenty-four 2.5-inch drive bays into a 2U rack chassis. Dual Xeon E5-2683 v4 processors deliver thirty-two cores at 2.1 GHz, and 512 GB of DDR4 ECC registered memory is installed. A PERC H730 SAS RAID controller manages the backplane, while dual 1100 W supplies and iDRAC8 Enterprise provide redundancy and remote control.

Suits storage-heavy workloads

This configuration targets databases, virtualisation hosts and backup repositories that benefit from high drive counts and large memory capacity. Buyers who need GPU compute, more than two sockets, or a single-thread frequency above 2.1 GHz should evaluate alternative platforms. The chassis does not ship with drives, so storage capacity must be specified separately.

24 × 2.5-inch SAS bays

The defining specification is the twenty-four-bay SAS backplane driven by the PERC H730 controller. It determines how many drives can be fitted and which RAID levels are available, making it the single factor that confirms whether the server matches the storage density requirement.