DELL PowerEdge R730xd 24 Bay 2.5" 2U Rack Server 2x Xeon E5-2680 v4 2.4GHz 14 Core 128GB DDR4 2x 300GB HDD

24-bay 2U rack server

The Dell PowerEdge R730xd is a 2U rack server fitted with twenty-four 2.5-inch drive bays. Dual Xeon E5-2680 v4 processors deliver twenty-eight cores at 2.4 GHz with 3.3 GHz turbo. One hundred twenty-eight gigabytes of DDR4 ECC memory and a PERC H730 RAID controller support SAS and SATA drives. Dual 750-watt platinum supplies, iDRAC8 Enterprise, and quad-port 1/10 GbE networking complete the platform.

Virtualisation hosts and dense storage nodes

This configuration suits virtualisation clusters, database nodes, and high-capacity storage tiers that benefit from twenty-four hot-swap bays and hardware RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60. Buyers who need more than two sockets, more than 1.5 TB of RAM, or GPU-accelerated compute should evaluate other platforms. The included 300 GB 10 K SAS drives provide a starting point; larger or faster drives can be added to match workload demands.

Twenty-four 2.5-inch SAS/SATA bays

The defining specification is the twenty-four-bay 2.5-inch chassis backed by the H730 12 Gb/s controller. It accepts SAS and SATA drives in any mix, enabling raw capacities well beyond the factory 300 GB pair. Buyers planning all-flash arrays or archival workloads can populate the bays with SSDs or high-capacity HDDs without changing the server.