DELL PowerEdge R730xd 24-bay 2.5" 2U rack server 2x Xeon E5-2699 v3 2.3GHz 18-core 768GB DDR4

High-density 2U server with 24 drive bays

The Dell PowerEdge R730xd is a 2U rack server populated with two Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3 18-core processors running at 2.3 GHz and 768 GB of DDR4 registered ECC memory. It includes a PERC H730 controller with 1 GB cache, dual 750 W platinum power supplies, quad-port networking with 10 Gb SFP+ and 1 GbE, plus iDRAC8 Enterprise remote management. Twenty-four 2.5-inch SAS bays and two 300 GB 10K drives ship installed.

Suited to storage-heavy virtualisation

This configuration targets midsize and large enterprises running data warehouses, e-commerce platforms, virtual desktop infrastructure or high-performance computing data nodes where internal drive count and memory capacity matter. It is not for buyers who need more than 24 internal bays, more than 1.5 TB of RAM, or a form factor other than 2U rack-mount.

24-bay 2.5-inch SAS chassis decides fit

The defining constraint is the 24-bay 2.5-inch SAS backplane paired with the H730 RAID controller supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60. If the workload requires that exact bay count and SAS/SATA connectivity in a 2U space, this server matches; otherwise a different chassis or controller is required.