DELL PowerEdge R730xd 24SFF 2x Xeon E5-2698 v4 384GB DDR4 No Drive

Dell PowerEdge R730xd 24-Bay Server

The Dell PowerEdge R730xd is a 2U rack-mount server system designed for storage-dense workloads. It ships with two Intel Xeon E5-2698 v4 processors running at 2.2GHz, providing 40 cores total. The system includes 384GB of DDR4 ECC registered memory across 24 DIMM slots, with capacity to expand to 768GB. A Dell PERC H730 SAS controller manages the 24 front-accessible 2.5-inch drive bays supporting SATA and SAS drives.

Suits virtualisation hosts needing maximum drive

This configuration fits organisations building software-defined storage clusters, backup repositories or database nodes that benefit from high spindle counts in 2U. The dual 1100W power supplies and iDRAC8 Enterprise licence support remote fleet management. Buyers who need pre-installed drives, more than 24 bays, or GPU acceleration should evaluate other platforms. The integrated graphics and lack of PCIe riser details limit visualisation or compute-offload roles.

24 x 2.5-inch SATA/SAS drive bays decide fit

The defining specification is the 24-bay 2.5-inch chassis backed by the PERC H730 RAID controller. This density determines whether the server matches a storage-heavy design or wastes space for compute-only tasks. Memory scales to 768GB and the dual Xeon 2698 v4 CPUs deliver 20 cores each, but the bay count is the primary filter for this model.