DELL PowerEdge R730 2U rack server E5-2650 v3 10C 2.3GHz 8GB DDR4 2x 300GB 15K SAS H330

Server purpose and fit

The Dell PowerEdge R730 is a 2U rack server built for dense virtualisation, database workloads and line-of-business applications. A single Xeon E5-2650 v3 with ten cores at 2.3 GHz and 20 hyper-threaded threads provides strong multi-threaded throughput for small-to-medium enterprises. Redundant hot-swap power supplies and iDRAC8 remote management suit organisations that need continuous uptime without on-site staff. Buyers who require dual-socket performance out of the box or integrated GPU acceleration should look elsewhere.

Memory capacity and headroom

The system ships with 8 GB of DDR4 installed across 24 DIMM slots, leaving extensive room for growth. The platform supports modules of 4 GB up to 128 GB each, reaching a total of 1536 GB when both processor sockets are populated. Speed scales to 2400 MT/s depending on the installed CPU. Workloads that demand large in-memory datasets can scale gradually; the current 8 GB baseline only serves light test or boot environments.

Bundled storage and controller impact

Two 300 GB 15K SAS drives and the H330 RAID controller deliver hardware RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 and 60 across up to eight 3.5-inch hot-plug bays. The 15K spindles provide low-latency random I/O for transactional databases, while the controller offloads parity calculations from the CPU. No solid-state drives are included, so read-heavy caching tiers must be added separately. The DVD-ROM remains for legacy media installs.