DELL PowerEdge R730XD 2U rack server 2×E5-2609v3 1.9GHz 32GB DDR4 H730 12×3.5

Dense 12-bay storage server

The Dell PowerEdge R730XD is a 2U rack system built around twelve hot-plug 3.5-inch drive bays and a Perc H730 RAID controller that supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60. Dual Xeon E5-2609v3 processors provide twelve cores at 1.9 GHz, while 32 GB of DDR4 memory occupies a fraction of the 24 available DIMM slots. Redundant 750 W power supplies and iDRAC8 remote management complete a platform designed for capacity-focused workloads.

Suited for archive and backup targets.

Organisations that need a single chassis to hold up to 52 TB of spinning media will find the bay count and controller a direct match. The six-core CPUs and base memory configuration limit performance for virtualisation clusters, database engines or GPU-accelerated tasks, so buyers chasing high thread counts or large memory footprints should look elsewhere.

Twelve 3.5-inch hot-plug bays define the fit

The maximum raw capacity of 52 TB is only reachable when all twelve bays are populated with large-capacity SAS or SATA drives. If the deployment requires fewer bays, 2.5-inch density, or a different controller feature set, the R730XD does not meet the requirement.