DELL PowerEdge R730xd 2U Rack Server 2x Xeon E5-2680 v4 2.4GHz 14-Core 512GB DDR4 24x 300GB SAS H730

Dense 24-bay storage server

The Dell PowerEdge R730xd is a 2U rack server populated with twenty-four 2.5-inch drive bays. Dual Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 processors provide twenty-eight cores at 2.4 GHz with a 3.3 GHz turbo. 512 GB of DDR4 registered ECC memory fills sixteen slots. A PERC H730 controller with 1 GB cache manages the twenty-four 300 GB 10K SAS drives.

Suited to capacity-heavy workloads

This configuration targets environments that need high spindle counts in a compact chassis, such as data warehousing, virtual desktop infrastructure or HPC data nodes. The quad-port 1 GbE and 10 GbE SFP+ daughter card supports converged traffic. Buyers who need solid-state tiers, GPU compute density or more than two processor sockets should evaluate other platforms.

24-bay 2.5-inch SAS chassis

The defining constraint is the twenty-four-bay 2.5-inch SAS backplane paired with the H730 RAID controller. It dictates the maximum raw capacity and the RAID levels available, including RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60. Confirm that your workload fits within the 300 GB per drive limit and the 12 Gb/s SAS interface before purchase.