DELL PowerEdge R730xd 2U 24-Bay 2.5" 2x Xeon E5-2699 v3 2.3GHz 18C 512GB DDR4 24x 2.4TB SAS H730

Dense 2U storage server

The Dell PowerEdge R730xd packs twenty-four 2.5-inch drive bays into a 2U rack chassis. Two 18-core Xeon processors running at 2.3 GHz deliver thirty-six cores total, while 512 GB of DDR4 registered ECC memory fills sixteen slots. A PERC H730 controller with 1 GB cache manages the twenty-four 2.4 TB 10K SAS drives in RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 or 60.

Suits capacity-heavy workloads

This configuration targets databases, virtual desktop infrastructure and data-warehouse nodes that prioritise raw spindle capacity and dual-socket compute density. The quad-port network daughter card supplies two 1 GbE and two 10 Gb SFP+ links, and iDRAC 8 Enterprise handles remote management. Builders who need solid-state speed, more than two processor sockets or GPU acceleration should evaluate other platforms.

24-bay 2.5" SAS chassis

The defining constraint is the twenty-four-bay 2.5-inch SAS backplane paired with the H730 controller; it fixes the maximum drive count and the RAID feature set. Any expansion beyond twenty-four spindles or a move to a different drive form factor requires a different chassis.