DELL PowerEdge R730xd 2U rack server 2x Xeon E5-2660 v4 2.0GHz 14-core 512GB DDR4 12x 8TB H730

Dual 14-core Xeon server for dense storage

The Dell PowerEdge R730xd is a 2U rack system built around two Intel Xeon E5-2660 v4 processors running at 2.0 GHz with a 3.2 GHz turbo. Fifty-twelve gigabytes of DDR4 registered ECC memory fills sixteen slots, leaving eight open for expansion. Twelve 3.5-inch drive bays hold eight-terabyte SATA hard drives managed by a PERC H730 controller with one-gigabyte cache and battery backup. Dual 750-watt platinum power supplies and iDRAC8 Enterprise remote management complete the package.

Suits storage-heavy workloads.

This configuration targets midsize and large enterprises running data warehouses, e-commerce platforms, virtual desktop infrastructure, databases or high-performance computing data nodes. The twelve-bay chassis and large-capacity hard drives favour capacity-over-speed storage profiles. Organisations requiring all-flash arrays, GPU-accelerated compute or workloads that exceed two sockets should evaluate alternative platforms.

Twelve 8 TB SATA drives on a H730 controller

The single specification that determines fit is the storage subsystem: twelve 7.2K RPM SATA hard disks delivering ninety-six terabytes raw capacity behind a PERC H730 RAID controller supporting levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 plus pass-through. If the application demands that exact drive count, interface and controller feature set, this server matches; otherwise a different storage topology is required.