Dell PowerEdge R730xd 2U 12 Bay 3.5" 2x Xeon E5-2699 v4 22 Core 2.2GHz 256GB DDR4 H730 12x 6TB

2U 12-bay 3.5-inch rack server

The Dell PowerEdge R730xd is a 2U rack-mount system fitted with twelve 3.5-inch drive bays, dual Xeon E5-2699 v4 processors each offering 22 cores at 2.2 GHz, 256 GB of DDR4 registered ECC memory and a PERC H730 controller with 1 GB cache. It ships with twelve 6 TB 7.2K SATA hard drives, a quad-port network daughter card providing two 1 GbE and two 10 Gb SFP+ connections, iDRAC 8 Enterprise remote management, redundant 750 W platinum power supplies, rails and a front bezel.

Workloads needing high capacity and thread count

This server suits databases, virtual desktop infrastructure nodes, data-warehouse storage tiers and high-performance computing data nodes that benefit from large rotational capacity and 44 total CPU cores; buyers who require all-flash performance, a 1U form factor or more than two processor sockets should consider other platforms.

PERC H730 RAID controller with 1 GB cache

The storage controller supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60 and pass-through modes, connecting to the twelve SATA drives through a 12 Gb/s SAS/SATA interface with battery-backed cache for write protection.