DELL PowerEdge R730XD 2U rack server E5-2630 v3 2.4GHz 8GB DDR4 3×2TB SAS H330

Capacity and form factor

The Dell PowerEdge R730XD is a 2U rack server that fits twelve 3.5" hot-plug bays and ships with three 2TB SAS drives on a Perc H330 controller supporting RAID 0/1/5/10/50/60. A single Xeon E5-2630 v3 running at 2.4GHz provides eight cores and sixteen threads, while 8GB of DDR4 occupies one of twenty-four DIMM slots. Dual 750W redundant supplies and an iDRAC8 remote-management module complete the chassis.

Who this suits

Organisations that need dense 3.5" storage in a shallow rack footprint will use the twelve-bay chassis for capacity-oriented workloads such as backup targets, media archives or software-defined storage nodes. The single-socket configuration keeps licensing costs low for entry virtualisation clusters. Buyers who require two processors from day one, GPU acceleration or all-flash performance should evaluate other platforms.

Memory ceiling

The installed 8GB sits in a platform that can scale to 1536GB across twenty-four DDR4 slots when a second processor is added, so the single-socket limit is the decisive figure for initial deployment planning.