DELL XE7100 5U rack server 2x XE7420 2x Silver 4210 2.2GHz 10C 64GB 50x 16TB SATA

5U rack server with 50 SATA drives

The Dell PowerEdge XE7100 is a 5U rack server populated with 50 16 TB 7.2K SATA hard drives and four 960 GB SATA SSDs inside the two XE7420 compute nodes. Dual Intel Silver 4210 processors running at 2.2 GHz with 10 cores each and 64 GB of DDR4 memory provide the compute foundation. Dual H745 PERC controllers and an H730P RAID controller manage the storage array. Two 2400 W redundant power supplies and iDRAC9 Enterprise remote management complete the platform.

Suits high-capacity archive workloads

This configuration serves organisations that need dense, high-capacity SATA storage in a single 5U chassis with dual-node redundancy. The 100 drive bays allow future expansion beyond the 50 installed drives. Buyers who require GPU accelerators or a smaller chassis with fewer drive bays should look at a different platform.

100 3.5-inch drive bays decide fit

The chassis provides 100 3.5-inch drive bays, which is the single specification that determines whether this server can accommodate the required storage density. If the deployment needs fewer bays or a different form factor, this model will not match the requirement.