DELL PowerEdge R730xd 12LFF 2x Xeon E5-2640 v3 2.6GHz 384GB DDR4 No Drive

12-Bay Rack Server for Storage-Heavy Workloads

The Dell PowerEdge R730xd fits twelve 3.5-inch drives in a 2U chassis, delivering high local capacity for backup, archive or software-defined storage clusters. Dual Xeon E5-2640 v3 processors at 2.6 GHz and 384 GB of DDR4 ECC registered memory provide the compute and memory headroom for deduplication, compression or database caching. An integrated PERC H730 RAID controller manages the drive array with hardware acceleration.

Suited for Capacity-First Deployments.

Organisations that need maximum spindle count per rack unit and can populate the bays with SAS or SATA drives will match the chassis strength. Buyers who require GPU acceleration, single-socket efficiency or dense all-flash configurations should evaluate other chassis designs because the 12-bay layout and integrated graphics do not address those requirements.

Twelve 3.5-Inch Bays Define the Storage Ceiling

The twelve-drive limit sets the raw capacity ceiling and the maximum number of RAID groups you can create. With no drives installed, you choose the exact mix of SAS and SATA media to hit your performance and budget targets. The PERC H730 controller supports the RAID levels needed for redundancy, but the bay count remains the hard constraint on total terabytes.