DELL PowerEdge R730xd 2U 24-bay 2x Xeon E5-2640 v3 2.6GHz 8-core 128GB DDR4 H730 2x 800GB SSD

2U 24-bay server for dense storage workloads

The Dell PowerEdge R730xd is a 2U rack server with twenty-four 2.5-inch drive bays. It targets midsize and large enterprises running data warehouses, e-commerce platforms, virtual desktop infrastructure or high-performance computing data nodes. Two Xeon E5-2640 v3 processors and 128GB of DDR4 ECC memory provide the compute base for these workloads.

Dual Xeon E5-2640 v3 at 2.6GHz with 8 cores each

The decisive specification is the pair of Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3 CPUs, each running at 2.6GHz with eight cores and a 3.4GHz turbo frequency. Together they deliver sixteen cores and thirty-two threads on the LGA 2011-3 platform with the C610 chipset. Buyers who need more cores per socket or a newer instruction set cannot use this system.

128GB DDR4 installed, 1.5TB maximum with 24 slots

Eight 16GB DDR4 2133MHz registered ECC modules populate eight of the twenty-four DIMM slots, leaving sixteen slots free for expansion up to the 1.5TB limit. The PERC H730 controller with 1GB cache manages the two installed 800GB SATA SSDs and up to twenty-two additional SATA or SAS drives in RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 or 60. Storage capacity scales with drive count; the controller and bay count set the ceiling.