DELL PowerEdge R730xd 2U 12 Bay 2x Xeon E5-2640 v3 2.6GHz 64GB DDR4 12x 8TB

Rack server with twelve 3.5-inch bays

This 2U Dell PowerEdge R730xd holds twelve 3.5-inch SATA hard drives and ships with 8TB enterprise disks installed in every bay. Dual Xeon E5-2640 v3 processors run at 2.6GHz with a 3.4GHz turbo frequency. The system includes 64GB of DDR4 registered ECC memory across four modules and a PERC H730 controller with 1GB cache.

Suits storage-dense workloads.

Organisations building data-warehouse nodes, VDI storage tiers or HPC data nodes can use the twelve-bay chassis and quad-port 1GbE/10GbE networking. Buyers who need more memory channels per CPU or a newer instruction set should evaluate other platforms. The LGA 2011-3 socket and C610 chipset limit upgrades to the same processor generation.

Twelve-bay 3.5-inch chassis defines capacity

The 2U rack height fits twelve 3.5-inch drives, fixing the maximum raw storage at the installed disk count. No additional 3.5-inch bays exist inside the chassis, so capacity expansion requires external enclosures or a different server model.