DELL PowerEdge R730xd 2U rack server 2x Xeon E5-2683 v4 2.1GHz 16-core 64GB DDR4 24x 300GB SAS H730

Built for dense 2.5-inch SAS storage

This 2U rack server ships with twenty-four 300 GB 10K SAS drives managed by a PERC H730 controller that supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60. Dual Xeon E5-2683 v4 processors provide thirty-two cores at 2.1 GHz with 3.0 GHz turbo, while 64 GB of DDR4 ECC memory occupies four of twenty-four slots. Quad-port networking adds two 1 GbE and two 10 Gb SFP+ links, and iDRAC8 Enterprise enables full remote management.

Suits workloads that need high spindle count

Database nodes, virtual-desktop hosts and HPC data nodes benefit from the large SAS array and dual-processor throughput. Buyers who require solid-state media should look elsewhere because the configuration ships with spinning SAS disks only. Organisations needing more than 1.5 TB of memory or more than two processors cannot expand this platform further.

Thirty-two cores and twenty-four drive bays decide

The combination of two sixteen-core CPUs and twenty-four hot-swap bays defines whether this server matches the workload. If the application scales across thirty-two threads and fills the drive count, the R730xd is the right part.