DELL PowerEdge R730XD 2U rack server 2× Xeon E5-2650 v3 10C 2.3GHz 16GB DDR4 H330 12×3.5

Dense 3.5-inch storage server

The Dell PowerEdge R730XD fits twelve 3.5-inch hot-plug SAS or SATA drives in a 2U rack form factor. Dual Xeon E5-2650 v3 processors deliver 20 cores at 2.3 GHz with 40 threads when hyper-threading is active. Sixteen GB of DDR4 memory and a PERC H330 RAID controller supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 and 60 complete the base configuration. Dual 750 W redundant supplies and iDRAC8 remote management are included.

Suits archive and backup workloads

This platform suits teams that need high-capacity 3.5-inch drive density and hardware RAID in a compact rack slot. Buyers who require 2.5-inch bay density, greater than 52 TB raw capacity, or more than 16 GB of memory as shipped should evaluate alternative platforms. The four 1 GbE ports may limit throughput for all-flash arrays or heavy virtualisation clusters. No operating system or drive trays are supplied.

Twelve 3.5-inch hot-plug bays

The defining specification is the twelve 3.5-inch hot-plug drive bays backed by the H330 controller. This bay count fixes the maximum raw capacity at 52 TB and determines whether the chassis matches the planned storage topology. Confirm that 3.5-inch SAS or SATA media and the supported RAID levels meet the project requirements before ordering.