DELL PowerEdge R730XD 2U rack server 2x Xeon E5-2650 v3 10C 2.3GHz 16GB DDR4 3x 2TB SAS H730

Dense 3.5-inch storage server

This 2U rack server ships with two ten-core Xeon E5-2650 v3 processors at 2.3 GHz, 16 GB of DDR4 memory and three 2 TB SAS hard drives on a PERC H730 controller. It is built for workloads that need up to twelve hot-swap 3.5-inch bays and redundant 750 W power supplies in a compact rack footprint.

Suits archive and database workloads

The twelve-bay chassis and RAID 0/1/5/6/10/50/60 support make it a fit for capacity-focused storage, backup targets or traditional database instances that run on SAS media. Buyers who need solid-state speed, GPU compute density or more than sixteen cores per socket should look at alternative platforms.

Twelve 3.5-inch SAS bays decide fit

With a maximum raw capacity of 52 TB across the hot-swap drive cage, the bay count is the single constraint that determines whether this server can hold the required dataset. Expansion beyond that limit requires external enclosures or a different chassis.