DELL PowerEdge R730 2U Rack Server 2x Xeon E5-2680 v4 2.4GHz 14-Core 768GB DDR4 8x 2.4TB SAS

Dual-socket 14-core Xeon server

This Dell PowerEdge R730 is a 2U rack server built around two Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 processors running at 2.40 GHz with 14 cores each. It ships with 768 GB of DDR4 registered ECC memory across 24 slots and a Dell PERC H730 storage controller with battery-backed cache. Eight 2.4 TB 10K SAS drives and a quad-port network daughter card providing two 1 GbE and two 10 Gb SFP+ connections are included. Dual 750 W platinum power supplies and iDRAC 8 Enterprise remote management complete the package.

Suits dense virtualisation and database nodes

The configuration fits midsize and large enterprises running data warehouses, e-commerce platforms, virtual desktop infrastructure or high-performance computing data nodes that benefit from 28 total cores and a large DDR4 footprint. The 2.5-inch drive bays and 12 Gb/s SAS controller support RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 for flexible local storage. Buyers who need more than two processor sockets, GPU compute trays or storage interfaces beyond SAS and SATA should evaluate other platforms.

768 GB DDR4 in 24 slots decides capacity

The system arrives with every memory slot populated by 32 GB DDR4 2400 MHz modules, reaching half of the 1.5 TB maximum supported by the Intel C610 chipset. Any future expansion requires removing existing DIMMs, so the installed 768 GB is the practical ceiling unless a full memory swap is planned. This density targets workloads that need large in-memory datasets today rather than headroom for tomorrow.