DELL PowerEdge R730xd 24 Bay 2.5" 2U rack server 2x Xeon E5-2660 v4 2.0GHz 14 Core 768GB DDR4

Dense 2U server for storage-heavy workloads

The Dell PowerEdge R730xd fits 24 hot-swap 2.5-inch drive bays into a 2U rack chassis. Two Intel Xeon E5-2660 v4 processors provide 28 cores at 2.0 GHz with 3.2 GHz turbo. 768 GB of DDR4 registered ECC memory fills all 24 DIMM slots. A PERC H730 controller with 1 GB cache manages RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 across SATA and SAS devices.

Suits virtualisation clusters needing maximum

This platform targets midsize and large enterprises running databases, VDI, data warehouses or HPC data nodes where internal storage density matters. The quad-port network daughter card adds two 1 GbE and two 10 Gb SFP+ links. iDRAC 8 Enterprise gives full out-of-band control. Buyers who need more than two processor sockets or more than 1.5 TB of memory should evaluate larger form-factor servers.

24-bay 2.5-inch chassis dictates storage scale

The defining specification is the 24-drive front bay count in a 2U height, which sets the raw capacity ceiling and the RAID group width available to the PERC H730. Two 400 GB SATA SSDs are installed as a starting point. Dual 750 W platinum power supplies and sliding rails are included. Confirm that the 2.5-inch drive form factor and 12 Gb/s SAS/SATA backplane match your media strategy before ordering.