DELL PowerEdge R730XD 2U Rack Server 12 x 3.5" Hot Plug E5-2650 v3 10C 2.3GHz 16GB DDR4 3x 1TB SATA H730

Dense storage server for cold data

This 2U rack system delivers twelve 3.5" hot-plug bays populated with three 1 TB 7.2K SATA drives behind a PERC H730 RAID controller. A single Xeon E5-2650 v3 provides ten cores at 2.3 GHz with 16 GB of DDR4 installed across 24 DIMM slots. Dual 750 W redundant supplies and iDRAC8 remote management complete the package.

Suits archives, backup targets and media libraries

The twelve-bay chassis and hardware RAID 0/1/5/6/10/50/60 make it a fit for sequential workloads that value capacity over latency. Organisations needing all-flash performance, more than twelve drive bays, a second CPU pre-installed or pre-loaded operating system images should evaluate alternative platforms.

Twelve 3.5" hot-plug bays define the capacity

With a 52 TB raw maximum across the twelve slots, the bay count is the single constraint that determines whether this chassis can hold the required dataset. Verify the total terabytes needed before committing to this form factor.