DELL PowerEdge R730XD rack server 2.5" 24-bay E5-2630 v3 2.4GHz 64GB 3x 1TB H330

2U rack server with 24 drive bays

The Dell PowerEdge R730XD is a 2U rack server populated with a single Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 eight-core processor at 2.4 GHz and 64 GB of DDR4 memory. It includes three 1 TB 7.2K SATA drives on an H330 RAID controller supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 and 60. Dual 750 W redundant power supplies and an iDRAC8 remote management module are fitted.

Suits dense storage workloads.

This configuration suits environments that need up to 24 hot-plug 2.5-inch SAS or SATA drives in a compact 2U chassis with hardware RAID. The installed CPU supports a second processor, but only one is populated, so buyers who require two-socket performance from day one should look elsewhere. The base networking provides four 1 GbE ports; organisations that require 10 GbE connectivity as standard should consider other options.

24-bay 2.5-inch hot-plug capacity

The defining specification is the 24-bay 2.5-inch hot-plug drive cage, which allows up to 52 TB of raw SATA or SAS storage behind a single H330 controller. This bay count determines whether the chassis can meet the density requirements of the target deployment.