DELL PowerEdge R730xd 24 Bay 2.5" 2U rack server 2x Xeon E5-2660 v3 2.6GHz 10-Core 64GB DDR4 H730 2x 300GB HDD

High-density 24-bay 2U rack server

The Dell PowerEdge R730xd fits twenty-four 2.5-inch drives in a 2U chassis, providing dense local storage for data-intensive workloads. Dual Xeon E5-2660 v3 processors deliver twenty total cores at 2.6 GHz, with a 3.3 GHz turbo frequency. Sixty-four gigabytes of DDR4 registered ECC memory and a PERC H730 controller with 1 GB cache support RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60. Redundant 750 W platinum power supplies and iDRAC8 Enterprise remote management complete the platform.

Suited for storage-heavy virtualisation

This configuration serves environments that need many drive bays and dual-socket compute in a compact rack footprint, such as virtual desktop infrastructure, data warehousing or HPC data nodes. The quad-port network daughter card supplies two 1 GbE and two 10 Gb SFP+ links for flexible connectivity. Buyers who need more than two processors, more than 1.5 TB of memory, or a different drive form factor should evaluate other platforms.

PERC H730 1 GB SAS/SATA RAID controller

The installed PERC H730 mini controller manages the twenty-four SAS or SATA bays and the two included 300 GB 10 K SAS drives. It provides hardware RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 plus pass-through mode, with a 1 GB battery-backed cache. This controller determines which drive types and RAID topologies are available, so verify that its feature set matches the storage layout you plan to deploy.