DELL PowerEdge R650xs 1U Rack Server 2x Xeon Gold 5317 128GB 10x 960GB SSD H745

Dense compute in 1U

The Dell PowerEdge R650xs is a 1U rack server equipped with two Intel Xeon Gold 5317 processors, each running at 3.0GHz with a 3.6GHz turbo frequency. It includes 128GB of DDR4 2933MHz registered ECC memory across eight 16GB modules. The system fits ten 2.5-inch drive bays, all populated with 960GB SATA SSDs managed by a PERC H745 RAID controller with 4GB NV cache. Dual 1400W platinum power supplies, iDRAC9 Enterprise, a Broadcom 57412 dual-port 10GbE SFP+ OCP card, rails and bezel complete the configuration.

Virtualisation hosts and dense storage workloads

This server suits teams consolidating virtual machines or running storage-heavy databases in a single rack unit. The ten SATA SSDs and hardware RAID support RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 for redundancy or throughput. Buyers who need NVMe latency, GPU acceleration or more than two sockets should evaluate other platforms. The 1U height also limits PCIe expansion compared with larger chassis.

Ten 960GB SATA SSDs on a single PERC H745

The storage subsystem is the defining constraint: all ten 2.5-inch bays are filled with SATA solid-state drives behind one hardware RAID controller. Capacity, write endurance and RAID level are fixed by this population; adding faster media or a second controller would require removing drives or changing chassis.