DELL PowerEdge R730xd 2U 12 Bay 3.5" 2x Xeon E5-2699 v4 2.2GHz 22 Core 64GB DDR4 12x 6TB H730

12-Bay 3.5-Inch 2U Server

The Dell PowerEdge R730xd is a 2U rack server populated with twelve 3.5-inch drive bays. Dual Intel Xeon E5-2699 v4 processors provide forty-four cores at 2.2 GHz with 3.6 GHz turbo. Sixty-four gigabytes of DDR4 2400 MHz registered ECC memory are installed across four slots. A PERC H730 controller with 1 GB cache manages the twelve 6 TB 7.2K SATA drives.

Suits storage-dense workloads.

This configuration targets midsize and large enterprises running data warehouses, e-commerce, VDI, databases or HPC data nodes where local capacity matters. The quad-port network daughter card adds two 1 GbE and two 10 Gb SFP+ links for flexible connectivity. iDRAC 8 Enterprise enables full remote management. Buyers who need all-flash performance or GPU acceleration should evaluate different platforms.

PERC H730 RAID controller with battery-backed cache

The H730 supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 plus pass-through mode. Its 1 GB non-volatile cache protects in-flight writes during power loss. Twelve SATA drives connect through this single controller, so the array topology and rebuild times depend on the chosen RAID level. Maximum system memory scales to 1.5 TB across twenty-four DIMM slots when workloads demand more capacity.