Dell PowerEdge R730xd 24SFF 2U Rack Server – 24x 2.5" Bay, Dual Xeon E5-2600 v3/v4

It takes Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 and v4 processors in two LGA2011-3 sockets. The top v4 parts reach 22 cores per CPU. Both installed processors must be the same model, so v3 and v4 chips cannot be mixed. The server runs on one CPU, but only the 12 DIMM slots attached to that socket are usable, and some PCIe slots depend on the second processor.

Both are 2U, dual-socket 13th-generation servers on the same platform. The R730xd is the storage-focused variant. It offers 24x 2.5" front bays in this configuration, plus optional rear flex bays. The standard R730 tops out at 16x 2.5" front bays. In exchange, the R730xd has up to six PCIe slots, while the R730 has more expansion and GPU options.

Yes, when the drives are presented directly to the operating system. The HBA330 is the usual choice because it passes disks through without a RAID layer. The PERC H330 and H730 can also be set to HBA mode, but the HBA330 is the cleaner option for ZFS. Memory capacity of up to 1.5TB gives plenty of room for ARC.

There are 24 DDR4 DIMM slots, 12 per processor, for a maximum of 1.5TB. The server accepts ECC RDIMMs or LRDIMMs, but the two types cannot be mixed in one system. Achievable memory speed depends on the processor generation and on how many DIMMs are installed per channel.

The front bays take 2.5" SAS and SATA hard drives and SSDs. Each drive mounts in a Dell 13th-generation hot-plug carrier. 3.5" drives need the 12-bay LFF version of the R730xd instead. The optional rear flex bays also take 2.5" drives and are often used for boot volumes or cache SSDs.

Choose the H730 or H730P for hardware RAID with a cache. The H730P has the larger cache and suits write-heavy arrays. The H330 provides basic RAID without cache. The HBA330 is for software-defined storage such as ZFS, Ceph or vSAN, where the operating system or hypervisor manages the disks.

Onboard networking comes from a network daughter card. Options are 4x 1GbE or 2x 10GbE plus 2x 1GbE. This card does not occupy a PCIe slot. Faster or additional ports, such as 25GbE or extra 10GbE adapters, can be added through the PCIe 3.0 slots.

iDRAC8 Express covers out-of-band health monitoring, power control and Lifecycle Controller deployment. The Enterprise licence adds the HTML5/Java virtual console and virtual media. Those features let you install an operating system or troubleshoot the server remotely without physical access to the rack.

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