DELL PowerEdge R730XD 2U rack server 2× Xeon E5-2650 v3 10C 2.3 GHz 16GB DDR4 3× 1TB SATA H730

Dense 2U rack server with twelve drive bays

This Dell PowerEdge R730XD fits a standard 2U rack space and holds up to twelve 3.5-inch hot-plug SATA or SAS drives. Dual Xeon E5-2650 v3 processors deliver twenty cores and forty threads at 2.3 GHz. The H730 RAID controller supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 with 1 GB cache. Redundant 750 W power supplies and iDRAC8 remote management come standard.

Suits storage-heavy workloads in a compact rack

Organisations running virtualisation hosts, backup targets or software-defined storage clusters benefit from the high drive count and hardware RAID. Buyers who need more than 16 GB of memory from day one should plan additional DDR4 modules because only 16 GB is installed across twenty-four DIMM slots. The four 1 GbE ports may limit network-heavy deployments unless an optional 10 GbE daughter card is added. No GPU-accelerated workloads are supported by the default PCIe 3.0 slot layout.

Twelve 3.5-inch hot-plug bays define capacity

The chassis accepts a maximum of twelve 3.5-inch SATA or SAS drives, limiting raw capacity to 52 TB with current drive sizes. This bay count is the single constraint that determines whether the R730XD can hold the dataset you need.