DELL PowerEdge T430 16SFF Xeon E5-2660v3 128GB DDR4

Tower server with sixteen 2.5-inch bays

The Dell PowerEdge T430 is a 16SFF tower server that ships with one Intel Xeon E5-2660v3 processor running at 2.6 GHz. It includes 128 GB of DDR4 ECC registered memory and a PERC H730 SAS controller. No drives are installed so the buyer adds the required SATA or SAS storage. Two 1100 W power supplies and an iDRAC8 Express remote-management module are fitted.

Suits virtualisation hosts needing dense local

This configuration fits organisations that want a single-socket server with sixteen hot-plug bays for mixed SSD or HDD arrays. The installed 128 GB DDR4 supports a moderate VM count and the board can accept a second Xeon and up to 384 GB total memory. Buyers who require more than two processor sockets, GPU compute cards or a 24-bay chassis should evaluate larger platforms.

Single Xeon E5-2660v3 with ten cores and 25 MB cache

The installed processor delivers ten cores at 2.6 GHz with 25 MB cache. The system board supports a second identical CPU for doubled thread count. Memory uses DDR4 registered DIMMs only; other DDR generations are physically incompatible. The PERC H730 controller manages RAID across the sixteen SATA or SAS bays.