DELL PowerEdge T430 16 Bay 2.5" 5U Server 2x Xeon E5-2650 v4 2.2GHz 12 Core 16GB DDR4 HBA330 2x 750W

5U Tower Server with 16 Drive Bays

The Dell PowerEdge T430 is a 5U tower server designed for businesses that need expandable storage and dual-processor compute in a single chassis. It supports up to sixteen 2.5-inch hot-swap drive bays and ships with dual Intel Xeon E5-2650 v4 processors running at 2.2 GHz with a 2.9 GHz turbo frequency. The system includes 16 GB of DDR4-2400 ECC registered memory across twelve DIMM slots.

HBA330 Controller for SAS and SATA Arrays

The installed PERC HBA330 provides 12 Gb/s SAS and SATA connectivity without on-board RAID processing, making it a direct replacement for a PERC RAID card when software-defined storage or host-based RAID is preferred. The jump is worth it when the workload uses ZFS, Storage Spaces Direct, or VMware vSAN and the administrator wants full drive visibility without a hardware RAID abstraction layer.

DDR4-2400 Memory Ceiling at 384 GB

Memory scales to 384 GB using the twelve available DDR4 slots, so configurations that exceed this capacity must move to a platform with more DIMM slots or higher-density modules. The LGA 2011 socket limits processor upgrades to the E5-2600 v3 and v4 families, and the dual 1 GbE ports cap network throughput at gigabit speeds unless additional NICs are added through the PCIe expansion slots.