DELL PowerEdge R730XD rack server 2U Xeon E5-2650 v3 2.3 GHz 10-core 48GB DDR4 3×1TB SATA H730

Dell PowerEdge R730XD 2U rack server

The Dell PowerEdge R730XD is a 2U rack server built for dense storage workloads. It ships with a single Intel Xeon E5-2650 v3 ten-core processor at 2.3 GHz and 48 GB of DDR4 memory. The chassis supports up to twenty-four 2.5-inch hot-plug SAS or SATA drives and includes a Dell PERC H730 RAID controller with 1 GB cache. Dual 750 W redundant power supplies provide power redundancy.

Suited for storage-heavy workloads

This configuration suits environments that need high drive counts in a compact rack footprint, such as backup repositories, software-defined storage nodes or virtualisation clusters. The single-socket design limits total memory to 48 GB and leaves the second CPU socket unpopulated. Buyers who require dual-processor performance or more than twenty-four drive bays should evaluate larger platforms.

Single Xeon E5-2650 v3 with 48 GB DDR4 maximum

The installed processor is a ten-core Xeon E5-2650 v3 running at 2.3 GHz with hyper-threading for twenty logical threads. Memory is capped at 48 GB across twenty-four DIMM slots, so expansion beyond this limit requires a processor upgrade. This specification determines whether the server fits the intended compute and memory envelope.