DELL PowerEdge R730xd rack server 2x Xeon E5-2660 v4 2.0GHz 14-core 768GB DDR4 24-bay 2.5" 2U

Capacity and compute

This 2U rack server delivers twenty-four 2.5-inch drive bays and dual 14-core Xeon processors running at 2.0 GHz, providing 768 GB of DDR4 memory across twenty-four slots. It targets enterprises that need dense local storage and strong multi-threaded performance for databases, virtual desktop infrastructure or high-performance computing data nodes.

Who it suits and who it does not

Organisations running storage-heavy workloads such as data warehouses or e-commerce platforms will benefit from the PERC H730 controller supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 plus the quad-port network card with two 1 GbE and two 10 Gb SFP+ links. Buyers who require more than two processor sockets, GPU-accelerated compute or a backplane that natively supports protocols beyond SATA and SAS should evaluate other platforms.

Deciding specification

The twenty-four 2.5-inch SAS/SATA trays define the storage ceiling: no drives are included, so the usable capacity and IOPS depend entirely on the disks you populate. Matching the 1.5 TB memory maximum and dual 750 W power supplies to your workload completes the configuration.