DELL PowerEdge R730xd 24SFF 2x Xeon E5-2690 v4 192GB DDR4 No Drive Server

Server configuration and purpose

The Dell PowerEdge R730xd is a 2U rack server equipped with two Xeon E5-2690 v4 processors running at 2.6GHz and 14 cores each. It ships with 192GB of DDR4 ECC registered memory and a PERC H730 SAS controller supporting up to 24 hot-plug 2.5-inch drive bays. The system includes dual 1100W power supplies and iDRAC8 Enterprise remote management.

Suitable workloads and limits

This server suits virtualisation clusters, database nodes or storage-heavy applications that benefit from high core counts and large drive-bay density. Buyers who need more than 768GB of memory capacity or who require a GPU for compute acceleration should look at a different platform. The integrated graphics and lack of installed drives also mean it is not a turnkey workstation or desktop replacement.

Deciding specification

The chassis provides 24 front-accessible 2.5-inch bays wired to a single PERC H730 controller with SAS and SATA support. If your deployment needs that many drives in 2U with hardware RAID, this configuration matches; if you need fewer bays or a different controller, another model will fit better.