DELL PowerEdge R730XD 2U rack server E5-2650 v3 10-core 2.3GHz 64GB DDR4 H330

12-bay 2U rack server

The Dell PowerEdge R730XD is a 2U rack-mounted server system built for dense storage workloads. It arrives with a single Intel Xeon E5-2650 v3 ten-core processor running at 2.3 GHz and 64 GB of DDR4 memory across 24 DIMM slots. The chassis supports up to twelve 3.5-inch hot-plug SAS or SATA drives via a PERC H330 RAID controller offering RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 and 60. Dual 750 W redundant power supplies and iDRAC8 remote management come standard.

Storage-focused IT teams

This platform suits organisations that need high capacity in a compact rack footprint for backup, archiving or software-defined storage clusters. The twelve-bay design and hardware RAID cover a wide range of redundancy profiles. Buyers who need a second CPU installed, pre-populated drives, an operating system licence or GPU-accelerated compute should evaluate other configurations. The Matrox G200 graphics and single 1 GbE daughter card limit desktop and high-throughput networking use cases.

Twelve 3.5-inch hot-plug bays

The defining specification is the twelve front-accessible 3.5-inch drive bays connected to the H330 controller. This bay count sets the raw storage ceiling at 52 TB using 3.5-inch media and determines whether the chassis matches the capacity target. Memory tops out at 64 GB with the current processor, and the six PCIe 3.0 slots plus a dedicated RAID slot handle additional I/O cards.