DELL PowerEdge R730xd 12x 3.5" 2U 2x Xeon E5-2640 v3 2.6GHz 8C 128GB DDR4 H730

Dense 12-bay 2U server for storage-heavy workloads

The Dell PowerEdge R730xd is a 2U rackmount system equipped with two Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3 2.6GHz 8-core processors and 128GB of DDR4 2133MHz registered ECC memory across 24 slots. It ships with a PERC H730 1GB controller supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60, plus twelve 3.5-inch SAS/SATA drive trays without drives installed. Dual 750W platinum power supplies, iDRAC8 Enterprise, quad-port networking with two 1GbE and two 10Gb SFP+ ports, rails and a bezel complete the package.

Buyers needing maximum 3.5-inch drive density

This chassis suits teams running databases, virtual desktop infrastructure, data warehouses or HPC data nodes that benefit from twelve front-accessible 3.5-inch bays and dual-socket Xeon performance. Organisations requiring fewer drive bays, a single processor configuration, or a smaller rack footprint should evaluate other platforms. The system arrives without hard drives, so storage media must be sourced separately.

PERC H730 controller with twelve 3.5-inch SAS/SATA

The onboard PERC H730 1GB controller manages up to twelve 3.5-inch SAS or SATA drives across a 12Gb/s interface with battery-backed cache. This combination of controller and bay count determines how many spinning disks or SATA SSDs can be attached directly without additional HBAs or expander enclosures.