DELL PowerEdge R730 8LFF 2x Xeon E5-2697 v3 256GB DDR4 rack server

Dell PowerEdge R730 8-bay rack server

The Dell PowerEdge R730 is a 2U rack-mount server system built for dense storage and virtualization workloads. It ships with two Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3 processors running at 2.6 GHz, 256 GB of DDR4 ECC registered memory, and a PERC H730 SAS RAID controller. The 8-bay 3.5-inch chassis supports up to eight SATA or SAS hard drives, which are not included.

Suited for storage-heavy virtualisation

This configuration suits IT teams building on-premise clouds, virtualisation hosts, or database clusters that need high core counts and large memory capacity. The dual 14-core CPUs and 256 GB RAM handle heavy concurrent workloads, while the eight drive bays allow local RAID arrays. It is not for buyers who require GPU compute acceleration or more than two processor sockets. Organisations needing higher memory ceilings or newer instruction sets should evaluate other platforms.

256 GB DDR4 ECC memory with 768 GB maximum

The installed 256 GB of DDR4 ECC registered memory operates across 24 DIMM slots and can be expanded to 768 GB. This capacity ceiling is the key figure when sizing the server for in-memory databases, large virtual-machine densities, or analytics workloads. If the target application demands more than 768 GB of RAM, this chassis cannot meet the requirement.