DELL PowerEdge R730xd 2U 24-bay rack server 2x Xeon E5-2680 v3 512GB DDR4 H730 2x 300GB SAS

High-density 24-bay 2U rack server

The Dell PowerEdge R730xd is a 2U rack server that fits twenty-four 2.5-inch drive bays into a compact chassis. Dual Xeon E5-2680 v3 processors provide twenty-four cores total for heavy multi-threaded workloads. Five hundred twelve gigabytes of DDR4 registered ECC memory support large virtualisation clusters or in-memory databases. The H730 controller manages SAS and SATA drives with hardware RAID levels up to RAID 60.

Virtualisation hosts and storage-heavy workloads

Organisations running virtual desktop infrastructure, data warehouses, or high-performance computing nodes benefit from the dense drive count and large memory capacity. Buyers who need more than two processor sockets or who require a larger number of PCIe expansion slots than the 2U form factor allows should consider other platforms. Environments that demand newer DDR generations or different processor families will not match this system.

Twenty-four drive bays with H730 RAID

The defining specification is the twenty-four 2.5-inch bays paired with the PERC H730 1GB controller supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60. This combination determines whether the server can deliver the local storage performance and redundancy your workload requires.