DELL PowerEdge R730XD 2U rack server 2× E5-2609v3 1.9GHz 16GB DDR4 H730 12×3.5

12-bay 2U rack server

The Dell PowerEdge R730XD is a 2U rack-mount server system equipped with dual Intel Xeon E5-2609v3 six-core processors at 1.9GHz and 16GB of DDR4 memory across 24 DIMM slots. It includes a PERC H730 RAID controller supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60, plus dual redundant 750W power supplies and iDRAC8 remote management. The chassis provides twelve 3.5-inch hot-plug drive bays for SAS or SATA drives.

Storage-dense workloads

This server suits organisations that need high internal capacity in a compact rack footprint for virtualisation, backup targets or software-defined storage clusters. Buyers who require more than twelve drive bays, faster network interfaces than the included four 1GbE ports, or a GPU-accelerated compute platform should evaluate alternative configurations.

Twelve 3.5-inch hot-plug bays

The defining specification is the twelve 3.5-inch hot-plug bays combined with the H730 controller, which together determine how much raw storage can be installed and which RAID levels are available. Maximum supported capacity reaches 52TB, and the controller operates at 12Gbps for SAS and SATA media. This bay count and controller pairing dictate whether the platform matches the planned storage topology.