DELL PowerEdge R730xd 2U rack server 2x Xeon E5-2680 v4 2.4GHz 14-core 512GB DDR4 24x 1.2TB SAS H730

Dense 2U Storage Server

The Dell PowerEdge R730xd packs 24 front-accessible 2.5-inch drive bays into a 2U rack chassis. Two Xeon E5-2680 v4 processors deliver 28 cores at 2.4 GHz with 3.3 GHz turbo. 512 GB of DDR4 registered ECC memory fills 16 of the 24 available slots. A PERC H730 controller with 1 GB cache manages RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 across the SAS backplane.

Suited For Capacity-First Workloads

This configuration targets teams that need high spindle count and large memory capacity in a compact rack footprint. Virtual desktop infrastructure, database nodes and data-warehouse staging benefit from the 24-drive density and quad-port 1/10 GbE networking. Buyers who need PCIe flash tiers, GPU compute density or single-thread frequency above 3.3 GHz should evaluate other platforms. The LGA 2011-3 socket and C610 chipset limit future processor upgrades to the same generation.

24-Bay 2.5-Inch SAS Chassis

The defining constraint is the 24-bay 2.5-inch SAS backplane paired with the H730 controller. It determines how many drives you can install, which RAID levels are hardware-accelerated and whether your existing SAS drives will connect without adapters. Verify that your workload fits within this drive-count and controller feature set before committing.