DELL PowerEdge R530 2U rack server E5-2650 v3 10C 2.3GHz 8GB DDR4 H330

Purpose-built 2U rack server

The Dell PowerEdge R530 is a 2U rackmount server designed for small-to-medium businesses that need a dense, two-socket platform with redundant 750 W power supplies. It ships with a single Intel Xeon E5-2650 v3 ten-core processor running at 2.3 GHz, 8 GB of DDR4 memory and a PERC H330 12 Gbps RAID controller supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 and 60 across up to eight 3.5-inch hot-plug drive bays.

Tool-free hot-plug installation

Eight front-accessible 3.5-inch bays accept SAS or SATA drives that lock in without tools, while the H330 controller auto-detects new volumes for quick array creation. The chassis uses sliding rails so one technician can rack the 25.4-inch deep unit, but the rail kit is not included in the box and must be sourced separately. Memory population follows a six-DIMM-per-processor rule; with only one CPU installed only six of the twelve slots are active, so adding a second processor unlocks the remaining channels.

Sustained multi-threaded throughput

Dual 750 W redundant supplies and efficient airflow keep the ten-core Xeon at its 2.3 GHz base clock during extended compute jobs such as virtualisation hosts or database workloads. The Matrox G200eR2 graphics subsystem draws minimal power, leaving the thermal budget for CPU and memory sustained performance. Four onboard 1 GbE ports handle steady network traffic without saturating the PCIe 3.0 and 2.0 expansion slots reserved for additional storage or networking cards.