DELL PowerEdge R730XD 2U rack server E5-2650 v3 10C 2.3GHz 16GB DDR4 H330 12x3.5

2U rack server with 12 drive bays

The Dell PowerEdge R730XD is a 2U rack server built around a single Intel Xeon E5-2650 v3 processor with 10 cores at 2.3 GHz and 16 GB of DDR4 memory. It includes a PERC H330 RAID controller supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 and 60 across up to 12 hot-plug 3.5-inch SAS or SATA drive bays. Dual 750 W redundant power supplies and iDRAC8 remote management come standard.

Suits dense storage workloads.

This configuration fits environments that prioritise internal storage capacity in a compact 2U form factor, such as backup targets, media repositories or software-defined storage nodes. The single-socket layout limits total core count and memory bandwidth compared with dual-processor builds. The Matrox G200 graphics and six PCIe 3.0 slots do not support modern GPU compute or high-end accelerator cards.

12 hot-plug 3.5-inch bays with H330 RAID

The defining specification is the 12-bay 3.5-inch hot-plug backplane paired with the H330 controller, which delivers up to 52 TB of raw capacity using SAS or SATA drives. This bay count and controller combination determines whether the chassis meets the storage density and RAID-level requirements of the intended deployment.