DELL PowerEdge R750 2U 12x3.5" 2x Xeon Gold 5317 256GB DDR4 12x4TB H755 5720 iDRAC9 Ent 2x1400W Bezel Rails

PowerEdge R750 2U 12-bay server

The Dell PowerEdge R750 is a 2U rack server populated with 12 front-accessible 3.5-inch drive bays. Two Intel Xeon Gold 5317 processors run at 3.0 GHz with 12 cores each. 256 GB of DDR4 2933 MHz registered ECC memory is installed across eight 32 GB modules. The PERC H755 RAID controller with 8 GB NV cache manages the 12 installed 4 TB 7.2K SATA drives. Dual 1400 W platinum power supplies, iDRAC9 Enterprise, a quad-port 1 GbE OCP 3.0 card, rails and bezel complete the configuration.

Suits dense storage workloads.

This configuration targets workloads that need large raw capacity in a compact 2U form factor, such as backup repositories, archival storage or software-defined storage nodes. The 12-bay 3.5-inch chassis and H755 controller support RAID 0/1/5/6/10/50/60 for flexible redundancy. Buyers who need all-flash performance, NVMe-only connectivity, GPU acceleration or support for 2.5-inch drive densities should evaluate other chassis options.

12 x 3.5-inch SATA bays with H755 RAID

The single specification that decides fit is the 12-bay 3.5-inch SATA backplane paired with the PERC H755 controller. It dictates that only 3.5-inch SATA or SAS drives can be used in the front bays and that RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 are available. If the deployment requires NVMe U.2/U.3 front bays, 2.5-inch-only sleds or a different RAID feature set, this chassis will not meet the requirement.