DELL PowerEdge R930 4U rack server 4× Xeon E7-8867 v4 2.4GHz 16-core 1.5TB DDR4 24× 600GB SAS H730P

Mission-critical compute density

The Dell PowerEdge R930 is a 4U rack server equipped with four Intel Xeon E7-8867 v4 processors running at 2.40 GHz with 16 cores each. It ships with 1.5TB of DDR4 2400MHz registered ECC memory across 48 DIMM slots and includes a PERC H730P 2GB controller managing 24 hot-plug 600GB 10K SAS drives. Quad-port networking and iDRAC8 Enterprise remote management complete the package for organisations consolidating heavy database, ERP or virtualisation workloads onto a single chassis.

Sustained throughput under load

Four 1100W 80+ Platinum power supplies feed the fully populated CPU and memory configuration, while the H730P battery-backed cache protects write performance during extended I/O bursts. The 24-drive SAS array delivers consistent 12Gb/s bandwidth for mixed read-write patterns typical of OLTP and analytics, and the X520/I350 daughter card maintains 10Gb SFP+ and 1GbE connectivity without thermal throttling. iDRAC8 provides continuous telemetry so administrators can track temperature, power draw and RAID health across multi-hour batch windows.

Upgrade path from smaller symmetric multiprocessing

This system replaces two-socket servers that have exhausted their DIMM slots or drive bays while workloads continue to grow. The jump is justified when a single operating-system image must address more than 1.5TB of memory or when licensing costs favour consolidating multiple smaller hosts onto one 96-core platform. Buyers who need GPU acceleration, NVMe-only storage tiers or arm-based architecture will not find those options here.