DELL PowerEdge R730XD 2U rack server 2x E5-2630 v3 2.4GHz 16GB DDR4 H730 24×2.5

Dense 2.5-inch storage platform

The Dell PowerEdge R730XD is a 2U rack server built around twenty-four hot-plug 2.5-inch drive bays and a PERC H730 RAID controller supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60. It ships with dual Xeon E5-2630 v3 eight-core processors at 2.4 GHz, 16 GB of DDR4 memory and two 750 W redundant power supplies.

Memory-limited starter configuration

This unit suits teams that need maximum drive density in a 2U chassis and can populate the twenty-four DIMM slots themselves; the installed 16 GB and the listed 16 GB maximum in the specifications mean the system cannot run memory-intensive workloads without additional modules. Buyers who need large memory footprints out of the box should look at something else.

Twenty-four 2.5-inch hot-plug bays

The defining specification is the twenty-four 2.5-inch hot-plug drive bays backed by the H730 controller; if the deployment requires fewer bays or a different form factor, this chassis is the wrong choice.