DELL PowerEdge T430 5U Server 2x Xeon E5-2660 v4 14 Core 2.0GHz 128GB DDR4 4x 960GB SSD

Dual Xeon E5-2660 v4 14-core tower server

This 5U Dell PowerEdge T430 delivers 28 total cores at 2.0 GHz with 3.2 GHz turbo across two sockets. It ships with 128 GB of DDR4-2400 ECC registered memory across eight populated slots. A PERC H330 controller manages four 960 GB SATA SSDs in a 16-bay 2.5-inch chassis. Dual 750 W platinum power supplies provide redundancy.

Virtualisation hosts needing dense core count

The dual-socket design suits VMware ESXi, Hyper-V or Proxmox clusters running multiple virtual machines. Database workloads benefit from the 384 GB maximum memory ceiling and twelve DIMM slots for future expansion. Organisations requiring GPU acceleration, single-thread speeds above 3.2 GHz or more than sixteen drive bays should consider other form factors.

PERC H330 SAS/SATA controller

Storage connectivity is handled by the integrated H330 controller supporting both SAS and SATA drives. The chassis accepts up to sixteen hot-swap 2.5-inch devices, though only four 960 GB SSDs are installed. Buyers planning all-flash arrays or mixed SSD/HDD tiers can populate the remaining twelve bays without adding a separate RAID card.