DELL PowerEdge R730xd 2U 12 Bay 3.5" 2x E5-2660 v3 2.6GHz 10 Core 768GB DDR4 H730 12x 6TB HDD

DELL PowerEdge R730xd 2U 12-Bay Server

The DELL PowerEdge R730xd is a 2U rack server built for dense storage workloads. It ships with twelve 3.5-inch drive bays populated by 6TB enterprise SATA hard drives and a PERC H730 controller supporting multiple RAID levels. Dual Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3 processors and 768GB of DDR4 registered ECC memory provide the compute foundation for virtualisation, databases and high-performance computing nodes. Redundant 750W platinum power supplies and iDRAC8 Enterprise remote management complete the package for midsize and large enterprise deployments.

Ideal for storage-heavy virtualisation

This configuration suits teams that need high raw capacity inside a 2U footprint, such as data-warehouse, e-commerce or VDI storage tiers. The twelve-bay chassis, hardware RAID controller and quad-port 1GbE plus dual 10GbE SFP+ networking give balanced I/O for those workloads. Buyers who require solid-state performance tiers, GPU acceleration or more than two processor sockets should evaluate other platforms. The fixed 768GB memory capacity also limits environments that must scale beyond 1.5TB maximum.

PERC H730 RAID controller with 1GB cache

The Dell PERC H730 1GB mini controller handles SAS and SATA drives at 12Gb/s with battery-backed write cache. It supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 plus pass-through mode, determining how the twelve 6TB drives can be grouped for redundancy or performance. Confirm the RAID level and stripe size match your application’s availability and throughput requirements before deployment.