DELL PowerEdge R730XD 2U rack server 2x E5-2650 v3 10C 2.3GHz 32GB DDR4 H330 24 x 2.5

Storage-dense 2U server

The Dell PowerEdge R730XD fits 24 hot-plug 2.5-inch drive bays into a 2U rack chassis, delivering high capacity in a compact footprint. Dual Xeon E5-2650 v3 processors provide 20 physical cores and 40 threads at 2.3 GHz, while 32 GB of DDR4 memory and a PERC H330 RAID controller with support for RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 and 60 handle demanding storage workloads. Redundant 750 W power supplies and iDRAC8 remote management complete a platform built for density and uptime.

Suits dense storage, not heavy compute

This chassis targets environments that prioritise drive count over expansion slots, such as backup targets, software-defined storage nodes or media archives. The six PCIe 3.0 slots and single Matrox G200 video output limit GPU acceleration and high-speed networking add-ons. Buyers needing more than 32 GB of memory from day one, 10 GbE ports out of the box, or a larger PCIe budget for accelerators should evaluate other platforms.

24-bay 2.5-inch hot-plug chassis

The defining constraint is the 24-bay 2.5-inch hot-plug backplane, which caps raw capacity at 52 TB with current drives and dictates SAS or SATA media only. Every other specification — CPU, memory ceiling, RAID levels, power redundancy — scales around that storage density. If the deployment does not require 24 front-accessible bays in 2U, a different form factor will use rack space more efficiently.