DELL PowerEdge R730XD 2U rack server 2x Xeon E5-2630v3 2.4GHz 64GB DDR4 3x 2TB SAS H330

Rack server with twelve 3.5-inch bays

The Dell PowerEdge R730XD is a 2U rackmount server fitted with dual Intel Xeon E5-2630v3 eight-core processors at 2.4 GHz and 64 GB of DDR4 memory across 24 DIMM slots. Three 2 TB 7.2K SAS drives and a PERC H330 RAID controller supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 and 60 provide the initial storage foundation. Dual 750 W redundant power supplies and an iDRAC8 remote management module complete the baseline configuration.

Suits storage-dense workloads

Organisations running virtualisation clusters, backup targets or archive repositories that benefit from twelve hot-plug 3.5-inch SAS or SATA bays will find the chassis well matched. Buyers who need more than 64 GB of installed memory per system or who require PCIe 4.0 slot speeds should evaluate other platforms.

Dual Xeon E5-2630v3 processors

The two eight-core CPUs deliver 16 physical cores and 32 threads via hyper-threading, setting the compute ceiling for every workload on this box. Memory speed is capped at 2400 MT/s by the processor capability, and the H330 controller operates at 12 Gbps SAS, so both figures bound the performance envelope you can expect.