DELL PowerEdge R730XD 2U rack server E5-2609v3 1.9GHz 48GB 3x 1.2TB H330

2U rack server with 24 drive bays

The Dell PowerEdge R730XD is a 2U rack server equipped with a single Intel Xeon E5-2609v3 six-core processor running at 1.9GHz. It includes 48GB of DDR4 memory across 24 DIMM slots and three 1.2TB 7.2K SAS drives. A PERC H330 RAID controller supports RAID 0/1/5/10/50/60, and dual 750W redundant power supplies provide resilience. The chassis holds up to 24 x 2.5-inch hot-plug SAS or SATA drives. No operating system is included.

Suits dense storage workloads.

This server suits environments that need high drive density in a 2U form factor, such as backup repositories, archival storage or software-defined storage nodes. The single six-core CPU and 48GB memory ceiling limit virtualisation density and compute-heavy applications. Buyers who need dual-socket performance, larger memory footprints or all-flash speed should look at platforms with higher core counts, greater DIMM populations or faster drive interfaces. The six available PCIe 3.0 slots plus a dedicated RAID slot allow extra networking or HBA cards.

24 x 2.5-inch hot-plug bays define capacity

The defining specification is the 24-bay 2.5-inch hot-plug backplane, which accepts SAS or SATA drives and supports up to 52TB of raw capacity. This bay count determines whether the chassis matches your storage scaling plan. The installed three 1.2TB drives and H330 controller provide a starting RAID set, but the backplane capacity is the fixed constraint that decides if this server fits the workload.