DELL PowerEdge R730xd 2U Rack Server 2x Xeon E5-2640 v3 2.6GHz 8-Core 128GB DDR4 24x 300GB SAS H730

2U 24-Bay Rack Server for Dense Storage

The Dell PowerEdge R730xd is a 2U rack server built around two Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3 2.6 GHz 8-core processors and 128 GB of DDR4 registered ECC memory. Twenty-four 2.5-inch drive bays connect to a PERC H730 controller with 1 GB cache supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60. Dual 750 W platinum power supplies, iDRAC 8 Enterprise, quad-port 1/10 GbE networking, rails and bezel complete the configuration.

Suits Storage-Heavy Virtualisation

Organisations running virtual desktop infrastructure, data warehousing or database workloads that benefit from high spindle count and hardware RAID will find the 24-bay SAS layout and dual-socket compute a direct fit. Buyers needing more than two processor sockets, GPU acceleration or memory beyond the 1.5 TB platform limit should evaluate other platforms.

24-Bay 2.5-Inch SAS Chassis Defines Capacity

The single specification that decides fit is the 24-bay 2.5-inch SAS backplane paired with the H730 controller; it fixes the maximum raw drive count at twenty-four 300 GB 10 K SAS disks and determines which RAID levels and hot-swap workflows are available.