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Silver 2U rack server chassis with 24 front 2.5 inch drive bays

DELL

DELL PowerEdge R730XD 2U rack server E5-2630 v3 2.4GHz 16GB DDR4 3x 300GB SAS H730

SKU CH-SYPN-Z2B95

2U rack server with single Xeon E5-2630 v3 2.4GHz, 16GB DDR4, three 300GB 15K SAS drives and H730 RAID controller, supporting up to 24 hot-plug bays

  • ProcessorIntel Xeon
  • Installed RAM16 GB
  • Video RAM8 MB
  • Installed SSDNo
  • ChipsetIntel C610
  • Type of memoryDDR4

Installed Memory Size 16GB

HDD 3 x 300GB

  • Eight-core Xeon at 2.4 GHz handles multi-thread workloads
  • 16 GB DDR4 memory supports virtualisation and databases
  • Three 300 GB 15 K SAS drives deliver fast storage
  • H730 RAID controller enables RAID 0/1/5/6/10/50/60
  • Dual 750 W redundant power supplies keep the server running

Dense 2U Storage Server

The Dell PowerEdge R730XD is a 2U rack-mount system designed for workloads that need many drive bays in a compact chassis. It ships with a single Xeon E5-2630 v3 eight-core processor at 2.4 GHz, 16 GB of DDR4 memory, and three 300 GB 15 K SAS drives on a Perc H730 RAID controller. Redundant 750 W power supplies and a DVD-ROM complete the base configuration.

Who This Suits

Organisations running databases, virtualisation hosts or backup targets that benefit from up to 24 hot-plug 2.5-inch bays and hardware RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 or 60 will match this platform. Buyers who need more than 16 GB of installed memory or a second processor from day one should look at a different configuration.

Deciding Specification

The single installed Xeon E5-2630 v3 limits the system to 12 active DIMM slots and a maximum of 1536 GB total memory, so the CPU choice directly caps both memory capacity and PCIe lane availability for the six expansion slots.

How it compares

Measured against everything we stock in Rack & Tower Servers, at today’s prices. Recalculated every night.

Price $410.99
Cheaper than about 94% of the 17,641 comparable items (median $1,910.99).
Installed RAM 16 GB
Lower than about 90% of the 15,103 comparable items (median 128 GB).
Video RAM 8 MB
Typical for this category: the median of 8,309 items is 0.01 GB.

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Specifications

Product
Brand nameDELL
Product linePowerEdge
Model namePowerEdge R730XD
Product typeRack
Processor
ProcessorIntel Xeon
ChipsetIntel C610
Max supported CPUs2
Memory
Installed RAM16 GB
Type of memoryDDR4
Maximum RAM capacity16 GB
Memory slot count24
Storage
Installed SSDNo
Disk controllerDell Perc H730 Controller
Drive interfaceSAS
Supported RAID levelsRAID 0/1/5/6/10/50/60
Maximum storage52 TB
Optical driveDVD ROM
Graphics
Video RAM8 MB
Graphics chipMatrox G200
Ports & slots
Network ports4 x Ports
Expansion card slotsUp to 7 x PCIe 3.0 plus dedicated PERC slot
Power
Hot-swap redundant PSUYes
Size & build
Rack height2U
Product weight70 lb (31.8 kg)
Software
Operating systemNo
More details
Management controlleriDRAC8 with Lifecycle Controller, iDRAC8 Express (default), iDRAC8 Enterprise (upgrade) 8 GB vFlash media (upgrade), 16 GB vFlash media (upgrade)

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Questions about this item

How do I install the H730 RAID controller in the dedicated slot, and what step is often missed?

Insert the H730 card into the dedicated RAID slot on the motherboard, then connect the SAS cables from the backplane. The step often missed is configuring the virtual disks in the H730 BIOS (Ctrl+R) before installing the operating system.

What maintenance will the 300 GB 15K SAS drives and 750 W redundant power supplies need later?

The 300 GB 15K SAS drives are mechanical; monitor SMART attributes via iDRAC8 and replace any drive that reports reallocated sectors. The 750 W redundant power supplies are hot-swap; replace a failed unit by sliding it out and inserting a new one without powering down.

What limit appears first under sustained load: CPU thermal throttling, memory bandwidth, or the 12 Gbps SAS backplane?

With a single E5-2630 v3 at 2.4 GHz and DDR4-2400, the 12 Gbps SAS backplane and H730 1 GB cache typically saturate before the CPU or memory subsystem during sustained sequential write workloads.

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