DELL PowerEdge R730xd 2U Rack Server 2x Xeon E5-2660 v3 2.6GHz 10-Core 512GB DDR4 24x 800GB SSD H730

Dense 2U storage server

The Dell PowerEdge R730xd packs twenty-four 2.5-inch drive bays into a 2U rack chassis, delivering high capacity in a compact footprint. Dual Xeon E5-2660 v3 processors provide twenty cores at 2.6 GHz with 3.3 GHz turbo for compute-heavy tasks. A PERC H730 controller with 1 GB cache manages RAID across the installed drives.

Suited for database and virtualisation nodes

This configuration targets workloads that benefit from large memory and many parallel spindles, such as data warehouses, VDI hosts or HPC data nodes. The 512 GB DDR4 ECC memory and twenty-four 800 GB SSDs support heavy read-write patterns. Buyers needing more than two sockets or a newer instruction set should evaluate other platforms.

24-bay 2.5-inch drive count

The chassis accepts exactly twenty-four 2.5-inch SATA or SAS devices, fixing the maximum raw device count before any expansion shelves. All twenty-four bays are populated with 800 GB SSDs in this build. Capacity planning must start from this bay limit.