DELL PowerEdge R730XD 2U rack server E5-2609v3 1.9GHz 8GB DDR4 3x 600GB SAS H330

2U Rack Server for Dense Storage

The Dell PowerEdge R730XD is a 2U rack-mount server built around a single Intel Xeon E5-2609v3 six-core processor running at 1.9GHz with 8GB of DDR4 memory. It ships with three 600GB 15K SAS drives and a Perc H330 RAID controller supporting levels 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 and 60. Dual 750W redundant power supplies and 12 hot-plug 3.5-inch drive bays provide the foundation for storage-heavy workloads.

Suits Archive Workloads Not All-Flash Arrays

This configuration fits organisations that need high-capacity rotational storage in a compact rack footprint, such as backup repositories, surveillance archives or secondary data tiers. The single-socket design and 8GB base memory limit immediate compute density, so buyers who need dual-processor performance, larger memory footprints or all-flash speed from day one should evaluate other platforms.

Twelve 3.5-Inch Hot-Plug Drive Bays

The chassis accepts up to twelve 3.5-inch hot-plug SAS or SATA drives, delivering a maximum raw capacity of 52TB with the H330 controller managing the array. This bay count is the decisive specification: it determines whether the server can hold the required number of drives before any expansion shelf is considered.