DELL PowerEdge T430 rack server 2x Xeon E5-2695 v4 2.1GHz 18-core 64GB DDR4 8x 8TB HDD H730

Dual 18-core Xeon server with 64GB DDR4

The PowerEdge T430 is a 2U rack server built around two Intel Xeon E5-2695 v4 processors running at 2.10 GHz with a 3.3 GHz turbo. It ships with 64 GB of registered ECC DDR4 memory across four 16 GB modules and eight 8 TB 7.2K SATA hard drives managed by a PERC H730 controller with 1 GB cache. Redundant 750 W platinum power supplies and iDRAC 8 Express remote management come standard.

Suits small-office workloads needing local capacity

This configuration fits file and print serving, mail, collaboration and web serving where large spinning-disk capacity and dual-processor throughput matter. The 12 DIMM slots allow expansion to 384 GB, and the eight 3.5-inch bays are fully populated. Buyers who need solid-state boot drives or more than two processor sockets should consider other platforms because the installed drives are SATA HDDs and the board supports a maximum of two CPUs.

PERC H730 RAID controller with 1 GB cache

The storage controller supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 plus pass-through mode, backed by a battery-protected 1 GB write cache. It connects to the eight SATA drives through a 12 Gb/s SAS/SATA interface. This single component determines whether the array can deliver the redundancy level and rebuild performance your workload requires.