DELL PowerEdge R730xd 2U rack server 2x Xeon E5-2680 v3 2.5GHz 12-core 128GB DDR4 2x 400GB SSD H730

Dual Xeon E5-2680 v3 12-core configuration

The PowerEdge R730xd ships with two Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 processors, each running at 2.5 GHz with a 3.3 GHz turbo frequency. Twelve cores per socket deliver 24 threads for parallel workloads. This density suits virtualisation hosts, database nodes and compute clusters that need high core counts in a 2U rack footprint.

PERC H730 controller with 1 GB cache

The Dell PERC H730 storage controller provides 1 GB of battery-backed cache and supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 plus pass-through mode. Two 400 GB SATA SSDs are installed in the 24-bay 2.5-inch chassis, leaving room to scale capacity without adding external enclosures. Sustained write throughput benefits from the cache during heavy transactional or logging workloads.

Quad-port 1/10 GbE networking and iDRAC8 Enterprise

A daughter card adds two 1 GbE and two 10 Gb SFP+ ports for flexible LAN and storage networking. iDRAC8 Enterprise enables full out-of-band management, remote console and lifecycle automation. Dual 750 W platinum power supplies and included sliding rails simplify deployment in standard racks. Buyers needing more than 24 drive bays or GPU compute slots should evaluate larger platforms.