DELL PowerEdge R730xd 2U Rack Server 2x Xeon E5-2680 v4 2.4GHz 14-Core 512GB DDR4 H730 2x 300GB SAS

24-Bay 2U Rack Server for Dense Storage

The Dell PowerEdge R730xd is a 2U rack-mount server system built for workloads that demand high drive density and strong compute in a compact form factor. It ships with two Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 processors, each delivering 14 cores at 2.4 GHz with a 3.3 GHz turbo frequency. The system includes 512 GB of DDR4 registered ECC memory across 16 modules and a PERC H730 storage controller with 1 GB cache supporting multiple RAID levels. Dual 750 W platinum power supplies and iDRAC8 Enterprise remote management come standard.

Suits virtualization and database nodes.

This configuration fits midsize to large enterprises running virtual desktop infrastructure, databases, data warehouses or high-performance computing data nodes where internal storage capacity and CPU thread count are priorities. The 24 front-accessible 2.5-inch bays and quad-port 1 GbE plus dual 10 Gb SFP+ networking support dense, network-attached storage layouts. Buyers who require GPU acceleration for machine-learning training or workloads that need more than two processor sockets should evaluate alternative platforms.

24 front 2.5-inch bays with SAS/SATA PERC H730 RAID

The single specification that decides fit is the 24-bay 2.5-inch chassis paired with the PERC H730 12 Gb/s SAS/SATA controller, which defines how many drives you can install and which RAID modes are available. The controller supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 plus pass-through, and the system ships with two 300 GB 10 K SAS drives. Memory scales to 1.5 TB across 24 DDR4 slots, and the LGA 2011-3 socket platform is limited to the two installed Xeon E5-2680 v4 CPUs.