DELL PowerEdge R730 2U rack server E5-2630 v3 2.4GHz 8GB DDR4 2x 300GB 3.5" 15K SAS H330

2U rack server for virtualisation workloads

The Dell PowerEdge R730 is a 2U rack server built around a single Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 eight-core processor running at 2.4 GHz. It ships with 8 GB of DDR4 memory and two 300 GB 15 K SAS drives managed by a PERC H330 RAID controller. The platform targets small businesses and remote offices that need dense compute and hot-plug storage in a standard rack footprint.

8 GB DDR4 with 24 DIMM slots for expansion

Installed memory sits at 8 GB across 24 DDR4 slots, leaving ample headroom to scale toward the 1536 GB maximum supported by dual processors. The H330 controller handles RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 and 60 across up to eight 3.5-inch hot-plug bays, so storage capacity can grow to 64 TB. Performance ceilings appear when memory bandwidth or the single CPU limit concurrent virtual machines or database threads.

Dual 750 W redundant power

Two 750 W hot-swap power supplies provide N+1 redundancy without external UPS dependency. The iDRAC8 Express module enables out-of-band monitoring, firmware updates and virtual console access over a dedicated network port. Four onboard 1 GbE ports handle production traffic, while seven PCIe 3.0 slots plus a dedicated PERC slot accommodate additional NICs, HBAs or GPU accelerators. Buyers needing 10 GbE connectivity or higher single-thread performance should evaluate other platforms.