DELL PowerEdge R730xd 2U rack server 2× Xeon E5-2640 v3 2.6GHz 8-core 64GB DDR4 24× 400GB SSD H730

Dual Xeon E5-2640 v3 2U server

This 2U rack system carries two eight-core Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3 processors at 2.6 GHz with 3.4 GHz turbo. It ships with 64 GB of DDR4 registered ECC memory across four 16 GB modules. Twenty-four 400 GB SATA SSDs are installed behind a Dell PERC H730 1 GB RAID controller supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60. Dual 750 W platinum power supplies and iDRAC 8 Enterprise remote management are included.

High-density storage for virtualisation

The 24-bay 2.5-inch chassis suits workloads that need many drives in a compact rack footprint, such as VDI, data warehousing or HPC data nodes. Quad-port networking with two 1 GbE and two 10 Gb SFP+ links handles moderate east-west traffic. Buyers who need more than 24 drive bays, larger individual SSDs, or GPU compute density should evaluate other platforms.

PERC H730 RAID controller with 1 GB cache

The storage controller determines which RAID levels are available and whether the battery-backed cache can protect in-flight writes during power loss. This unit provides hardware RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 plus pass-through mode. Confirm that the supported RAID set matches the application's resilience requirements before purchase.