DELL PowerEdge R730xd 2U 24-Bay 2x Xeon E5-2680 v3 2.5GHz 12-Core 64GB DDR4 24x 1.2TB SAS H730

Dense 2U storage server

The Dell PowerEdge R730xd is a 2U rack server built for workloads that demand high drive density and dual-processor compute. It ships with two Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 processors, each running 12 cores at 2.5 GHz with a 3.3 GHz turbo frequency. Memory capacity is 64 GB of DDR4 registered ECC across four 16 GB modules. Twenty-four 2.5-inch drive bays are populated with 1.2 TB 10K SAS hard drives connected to a PERC H730 controller with 1 GB cache.

Suited for capacity-heavy workloads

This configuration fits environments that run databases, virtual desktop infrastructure, or data-warehouse nodes where raw spindle capacity and dual-socket throughput matter. The quad-port network daughter card provides two 1 GbE and two 10 Gb SFP+ links for flexible fabric attachment. Buyers who need solid-state speed or more than 1.5 TB of memory should evaluate other platforms. The system includes iDRAC 8 Enterprise, dual 750 W platinum power supplies, rails and bezel.

24-bay SAS drive count

The defining specification is the 24-bay 2.5-inch SAS backplane paired with the H730 RAID controller supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60. That combination decides whether the chassis can deliver the spindle count and redundancy scheme your dataset requires. Memory can scale to 1.5 TB across 24 DDR4 slots if the workload grows.