Dell PowerEdge R730xd 24-Bay 2.5"
Configure Your System:
1 Processor Required
Step 1: Choose a series
Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 (Haswell) is the value play. Mature, plentiful, and the lowest cost per core we sell. Memory runs at 2133 MT/s.
Intel Xeon E5-2600 v4 (Broadwell) is the same socket a die shrink later: more cores at the top of the range, better performance per watt, and 2400 MT/s memory support. The price gap has narrowed enough that v4 is our default recommendation; take v3 when the budget is the whole story.
Whichever series you pick, populate both sockets. A single-CPU R730xd loses half its memory channels, half its DIMM slots, and the PCIe lanes that route through the second processor, and a storage node needs those lanes for controllers and networking.
Step 2: Choose your CPU
A storage-first chassis does not need top-bin compute, but do not starve it either: Ceph, ZFS, and Storage Spaces Direct all burn real CPU cycles on checksums, erasure coding, and rebuilds.
Running Windows Server 2022? Two 8-core CPUs land exactly on the 16-core base license. Our pick is the E5-2667 v4 (8 cores, 3.2 GHz): high clocks per core, which Windows and Storage Spaces workloads reward.
Building a software-defined storage node on Proxmox or Ceph? Mid-range v4 parts in the 2650 to 2680 range are the balanced default.
Lower-cost parts cover backup targets and archive nodes where the drives do the work, and on this chassis that describes a large share of builds. There is no shame in the cheap pair here; it is often the honest answer.
Fair warning: a 13th generation platform is a value play, not a performance play. If per-core licensing or single-thread speed is load-bearing, newer silicon can cost less overall, and we will tell you so at quote time if that is your situation.
2 Heat Sink Optional
What does matter on a chassis you bought to fill with drives is airflow discipline. The R730xd cools front to back through its backplane, so every drive bay blank and internal shroud should stay installed; an open path lets air skip the components that need it. A fully loaded xd makes its fans work, and it was engineered for datacenter intake air. It will survive an office closet, but it will be louder and hotter there, and fan and drive life is better in a real cold aisle.
If you are considering GPUs or other high-wattage cards alongside a full drive load, call 1-800-778-1545 before checkout and we will confirm the whole thermal picture.
3 Memory (RAM) 24 DIMM slots, modules added in sets of 2 Required
The E5-2600 platform runs four memory channels per socket. Populate up to two DIMMs per channel (16 slots total) and memory runs at full speed: 2400 MT/s with v4 processors, 2133 with v3. Load the third DIMM on each channel to reach all 24 slots and the whole bank drops a speed tier. That is the trade: 16 slots for maximum bandwidth, 24 slots for maximum capacity per dollar.
Our default on this chassis is 16 DIMMs at full speed. Storage stacks are not idle memory users; Ceph, ZFS, and Storage Spaces Direct lean on RAM for caching and metadata, and they feel bandwidth.
Go to all 24 when capacity is the whole point, such as a ZFS box where more ARC at a lower clock beats less ARC at a higher one. That is a real profile, and this platform serves it cheaply.
Whichever count you choose, buy it as one matched set, now. The instinct to leave slots open for a later upgrade rarely plays out well: a year from now you are hunting for DIMMs that match the rank and speed of what is in the box, and a mismatch either clocks the whole server down or refuses to train. The server is in production by then, so adding memory means a maintenance window you have to schedule and justify.
Common landing spots: 128 GB (16x 8 GB) for a backup or archive node, 256 GB (16x 16 GB) is our default for a working storage node, and 384 GB (24x 16 GB) for cache-hungry ZFS or consolidation duty where capacity outranks clock.
4 RAID Controllers Optional
If this node is running traditional hardware RAID, the bay count makes the choice for you.
PERC H730P (2 GB battery-backed cache) is the configurator default and our pick for this chassis. A loaded xd generates enough parity work and write traffic that the larger cache is the difference between an array that performs and one that merely functions.
PERC H730 (1 GB cache) is defensible on a lightly populated build with modest write load; if you are filling the bays, spend the small difference on the H730P.
PERC H330 has no cache and does not belong in front of a loaded xd backplane. A no-cache controller in front of two dozen drives is a bottleneck you paid extra to install.
Whichever path you take, RAID 6 over RAID 5 on any large-capacity spinning array, and plan a hot spare. At this drive count the first failure is a when, not an if.
5 Storage Drives Select up to 26 drives (0/26 Slots Used) Optional
This is the small-format R730xd, and it is the IOPS-per-dollar play. Twenty-four 2.5" bays take SAS and SATA in both flavors: SSDs for latency-sensitive tiers, 10K SAS spinning drives for bulk that still needs to move, and a mixed build is often the honest answer, flash tier in the first bays, spindles behind it. If pure bulk capacity per dollar is the goal instead, the 12-Bay 3.5" version of this chassis does that job for less per terabyte.
Buy new. We steer you away from refurbished on drives specifically, and we say that as a company that sells refurbished servers all day. A used drive with unknown hours is a different bet than a burned-in chassis, and a rebuild is exactly when you do not want to lose a second one.
The two rear flex bays are the xd's quiet advantage: put a small RAID 1 SSD pair back there for the OS and keep all twenty-four front bays for data. It is the cleanest boot arrangement on this platform, and it costs you nothing up front.
Array guidance: RAID 10 where write latency matters, RAID 6 over RAID 5 on any large spinning array, and a hot spare on any array whose rebuild you would rather not race. If this node feeds Ceph or Storage Spaces Direct instead, skip RAID entirely and take the HBA330 (see the RAID step).
6 Remote Access Required
The dividing line is the remote console. iDRAC8 Enterprise gives you remote KVM and virtual media, meaning you can reach the server's screen, mount an ISO, and rebuild an OS from anywhere, even when the operating system is down. Express does not include the remote console, so any problem below the OS level means walking to the rack.
Our pick is Enterprise, and on a storage node it is closer to mandatory than optional. An R730xd typically holds a cluster's data or a company's backups, sits in a datacenter or colo, and gets touched rarely; that is exactly the profile where remote console, virtual media, and automated firmware updates earn their keep. Secure erase also matters on a chassis that will eventually retire holding two dozen drives of company data.
Express is the right call only when the server sits down the hall and someone can physically reach it without ceremony.
One honest note on age: iDRAC8's interface is a product of its era, and some functions lean on older browser technology than iDRAC9 does. It works, we use it daily, but budget a few minutes of setup patience.
If you are deploying 5 or more units, take Enterprise on all of them. Fleet management without remote console access does not work in practice.
7 Power Supply 2x included in build Required
A loaded spinning-disk chassis is the case to plan for: a full backplane adds hundreds of watts on its own, and spinning drives pull their peak current at spin-up, exactly when the server is also busiest bringing everything else online.
2x 750W is the configurator default and covers moderate builds: mid-range CPUs with a partially populated backplane, or an all-flash configuration where per-drive draw is lower.
2x 1100W is our pick the moment you are filling the bays with spinning disk, or running higher-TDP processors under a full backplane. The price step is small and it keeps the 50 percent load target intact, where a PSU runs at peak efficiency, runs cooler, and lasts longer than one working near its limit.
Watch the estimated TDP counter at the bottom of the page as you add components to see where your build lands, and remember the counter does not see spin-up surge; a fully loaded chassis belongs on the 1100W pair regardless of what the steady-state math says.
One planning note: if more drives are coming later, size the PSU for the full backplane now. Drives arrive in twos and threes; a PSU swap is a second shipment.
8 Network Cards Required
Speed first, and on this chassis the storage role sets the floor. A node holding this many drives is almost certainly serving that capacity to other machines, and every byte leaves through this card. Quad 1 GbE only makes sense if this is a self-contained backup or archive box that nothing else mounts. For anything serving storage (Ceph, Storage Spaces Direct, NFS, iSCSI, SMB) treat 10 Gb as the floor: the 2x 10 Gb + 2x 1 Gb combo cards cover production traffic with 1 Gb left for management. Rebuild and resync traffic is the hidden load here; when a storage node re-enters a cluster, the network determines whether recovery takes hours or days.
Then port type, and this is the one that catches people. SFP+ ports take fiber or DAC cables and talk to datacenter-grade switches. BASE-T ports are 10 Gb copper on ordinary RJ45. Neither is better; they must simply match your switch. Order SFP+ against a copper-only switch and the server racks up with nothing to plug into.
Need more ports than the NDC provides? PCIe network cards stack on top of whatever you choose here. Call 1-800-778-1545 and we will spec the whole path, switch ports included.
9 Operating System Required
First, an honest compatibility note for this platform. Windows Server 2025 is not certified for this processor generation, and current VMware ESXi releases no longer support it. A 13th generation server is a value platform, and the right OS choices lean the same way.
Windows Server 2022 is the version to buy. Standard licensing is per core with a 16-core base, which is why our processor guidance steers Windows buyers to two 8-core CPUs: the 16-Core license covers that build exactly. Past 16 total cores, you need the 24-Core option. On CALs, count your users and round up. One storage-specific note: Storage Spaces Direct requires Datacenter edition, not Standard, so if this node is joining an S2D cluster, budget accordingly.
Fair warning on Evaluation Editions: free and fully functional for 180 days, then they expire. Right for labs and proof-of-concept, wrong for production.
VMware: we will install ESXi on request for hosts joining an existing licensed cluster, but we do not recommend starting a new VMware deployment on this platform given the support status.
Proxmox VE is our quiet favorite for the R730xd: open-source KVM virtualization with clustering, live migration, and Ceph built in, no per-core license math, and full current support on this hardware. A two dozen bay xd is a natural Ceph node at a value price.
Ubuntu Server LTS covers Linux storage duty with five years of free updates, and it is the standard base for standalone Ceph deployments.
No OS is there for teams imaging from their own deployment infrastructure, including TrueNAS builds, which this chassis handles exceptionally well.
Not sure which fits? Tell us the workload at quote time, or call 1-800-778-1545.
WServer Warranty
Dell PowerEdge R730xd 24-Bay 2.5" + RFB [13th Gen] Detailed Review
In our hands-on experience with dense 13th gen SSD storage builds, the refurbished Dell PowerEdge R730xd 24-Bay 2.5" + RFB is the maximum-density node in the generation: twenty-four 2.5" hot-swap front bays plus a two-bay rear flex bay (RFB), twenty-six small-form-factor drives total in a single 2U chassis. It is the high-density counterpart to the R730xd 12-Bay 3.5", built on the same Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3/v4 dual-socket platform but optimized for SSD performance and drive count rather than large-form-factor bulk capacity.
In 2026 this is the cost-correct call when high-density SSD per node is the design driver and 13th gen acquisition pricing wins against 14th gen alternatives: vSAN OSA nodes at maximum per-node drive count, dense SQL Server, Oracle, or PostgreSQL on local SAS SSD, high-density virtualization hosts, and scale-out SSD storage clusters where twenty-six SFF drives per 2U hits the capacity-and-IOPS target. The two-bay rear flex bay keeps the boot pair or a fast tier off the front array, preserving all twenty-four front bays for data.
Wholesale Servers configures every R730xd to order and tests it before it ships. Each unit completes a 12+ hour burn-in covering every PCIe slot, every memory channel, and every drive bay, then ships with a standard 180-day warranty plus optional 1-Year, 2-Year, and 3-Year Premium coverage for the post-ProSupport period. Volume pricing begins at 5 units. To scope a build, call 1-800-778-1545 or use the quote form on this page.
When 24 SFF Bays Plus a 2-Bay Rear Flex Bay Is the Right Choice
This variant exists for one reason: maximum drive count in a 2U node. Twenty-four front 2.5" bays plus a two-bay rear flex bay is the densest configuration Dell shipped in the 13th generation. Choose it over the R730xd 12-Bay 3.5" + RFB when the workload wants SSD IOPS and spindle count rather than bulk NL-SAS terabytes, and over the standard R730 16-Bay 2.5" when sixteen bays are not enough and the extra eight front bays plus the two rear bays earn their cost. The platform underneath is identical to the rest of the R730 family; what is different here is the backplane, the drive count, and the resource sizing that dense SSD deployments call for.
Storage: 24 SFF Front Bays Plus 2-Bay Rear Flex Bay
Twenty-four 2.5" SAS/SATA hot-swap front bays carry the workload. The volume use case is dense SAS SSD. SAS HDDs are supported, but the SFF chassis is specified when SSD performance is the point; for spinning-disk capacity the 12-Bay LFF build is the right chassis.
Front 24 SFF bays
- 24 x 1.92 TB SAS SSD: The volume vSAN OSA configuration. Partitions cleanly into disk groups, for example six groups of one cache plus three capacity, or four groups of one cache plus five capacity.
- 24 x 3.84 TB SAS SSD: Higher-capacity dense virtualization datastore, roughly 70-80 TB usable at RAID 60 depending on layout. Strong for VM hosts with substantial local storage.
- 24 x 1.6 TB Mixed-Use SAS SSD: Write-intensive workloads at maximum density: SQL Server tempdb arrays, OLTP transaction storage, high-write log retention.
- 16 SAS SSD + 8 SAS HDD: A tiered build with an SSD performance tier over an HDD warm tier. Less common but supported.
- Up to 4 NVMe SSDs: Specific 24-bay backplane SKUs support up to four NVMe drives in the rightmost bays for a cache or hot tier alongside the SAS SSD capacity tier. Not all twenty-four bays are NVMe-capable; confirm the backplane at quote time.
Rear 2-bay flex (RFB)
The rear flex bay holds two 2.5" SAS/SATA hot-swap drives, independent of the front array:
- 2 x SSD boot mirror (240-480 GB): Hardware RAID 1 OS boot off the front array, preserving all twenty-four front bays for data. The common layout.
- 2 x SSD fast tier: For ZFS L2ARC/ZIL, separated transaction logs, or a dedicated metadata tier.
- 1 x boot + 1 x hot spare: Single-drive boot with a standby for rapid replacement in cost-constrained builds.
RAID at 24-bay density
Twenty-four drives give real layout flexibility. RAID 60 (two RAID 6 sets of twelve, striped) is the volume choice for dense SSD: twenty data drives, four parity, strong fault tolerance with good efficiency. RAID 60 as three sets of eight trades a little capacity for faster rebuilds. RAID 10 (twelve mirrored pairs) suits write-intensive workloads at a 50% capacity cost. A dual-PERC architecture can run multiple separate arrays (a 16 + 8 or 12 + 12 split) for workload isolation. vSAN disk-group layouts have many valid combinations at twenty-four drives.
Storage Controllers at 24-Bay Scale
The same 13th gen PERC family applies, but at twenty-four drives the controller choice matters more, and dual PERC becomes a real consideration.
- PERC H730P (2 GB NV cache, battery-backed): The production default. RAID 0/1/5/6/10/50/60. At twenty-four active SSDs the 2 GB cache works harder than on a 12-drive node; for sustained-write arrays we often pair two of them.
- Dual PERC H730P: Two controllers splitting the front bays (16 + 8, or 12 + 12) materially improve sustained write performance over a single controller fronting all twenty-four drives. Recommended for write-heavy or mixed dense-SSD workloads.
- PERC H730 (1 GB cache): The budget controller when the 2 GB cache is not load-bearing.
- HBA330 (pass-through): The choice for vSAN, Ceph, ZFS, or any software-defined stack that manages redundancy itself. vSAN OSA specifically wants pass-through, not hardware RAID.
The 8 GB PERC H740P is a 14th gen part and does not run on this platform; at 24-drive density its larger cache is exactly where the 14th gen R740xd pulls ahead.
Processors
Dual-socket on LGA-2011-3, accepting Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 (Haswell) and v4 (Broadwell), pin-compatible with a BIOS update, up to 44 cores and 88 threads dual-v4. Unlike the capacity-tier 12-Bay build, the dense-SFF variant is usually deployed for performance, so CPU sizing trends higher.
- E5-2680 v4 (14C, 2.4 GHz, 120W): The volume balanced SKU for dense virtualization and storage-plus-compute nodes.
- E5-2690 v4 (14C, 2.6 GHz, 135W): Higher clock at the same core count for frequency-sensitive workloads.
- E5-2697 v4 (18C, 2.3 GHz, 145W): For high-IOPS vSAN or VM-dense nodes where total core count drives the consolidation ratio.
- E5-2699 v4 (22C, 2.2 GHz, 145W): Maximum core count for the densest virtualization deployments.
Twenty-four active SAS SSDs at high IOPS benefit from cores for RAID processing and network handling, so the cost-floor 85W SKUs that suit a backup target are usually under-spec here. For full per-SKU detail see the 13th gen processor section on the R630 10-Bay platform page.
Memory
24 DDR4 DIMM slots: twelve per CPU, four channels per socket, three slots per channel. Maximum 1.5 TB with 64 GB LRDIMMs. 2400 MT/s at one and two DIMMs per channel on v4 SKUs, stepping down to 1866 MT/s at three DIMMs per channel; v3 SKUs top out at 2133 MT/s. No Optane Persistent Memory (a 14th gen feature); no mixed RDIMM/LRDIMM, no UDIMM.
Dense SFF nodes carry more memory than capacity-tier builds because VM density per node is higher.
- 256 GB: Entry point for dense storage with modest compute.
- 512 GB: The volume range for vSAN nodes and high-density VM hosts.
- 768 GB to 1.5 TB: For VDI, memory-intensive virtualization, or large in-memory working sets at the platform ceiling.
The 2400 MT/s ceiling is the platform's defining memory limit against the 14th gen R740xd at 2933 MT/s. For memory-bandwidth-sensitive workloads the delta is real; for IOPS-bound dense storage it is usually not the bottleneck.
Networking and PCIe Expansion
Networking is via the Dell rack Network Daughter Card (rNDC), which does not consume a PCIe slot, plus add-in PCIe NICs. rNDC options span 4 x 1 GbE, 2 x 10 GbE Base-T, 4 x 10 GbE, and 25 GbE through a PCIe ConnectX-4 Lx card. On a 24-SSD node, 10 GbE is the floor and 25 GbE is strongly recommended: twenty-four SAS SSDs can saturate a single 10 GbE link under heavy traffic, and vSAN or dense storage-tier deployments benefit directly from the headroom.
The 2U chassis carries up to seven PCIe Gen3 slots depending on riser. On a dense-storage node that budget commonly goes to a second PERC, a 25 GbE NIC, or an external SAS HBA. Specific slot mixes depend on riser choice at order time.
GPU Support
The 2U envelope can host an accelerator (a single-width NVIDIA T4 at 70W, or a double-width Pascal or Volta card such as the P40 or V100 at 250-300W with the right riser and 1100W PSUs), but with twenty-four front bays and two rear bays consuming the chassis, GPU plus full storage is a tight combination. If GPU compute is central, the standard R730 8-Bay 2.5" or a 14th gen R740 is the better-balanced platform. Modern Ampere and Hopper GPUs are not supported here.
Management: iDRAC8 Enterprise
iDRAC8 Enterprise out-of-band management: remote KVM, virtual media, remote power control, hardware health and predictive failure telemetry, Active Directory and LDAP integration, SNMP and email alerting, and Lifecycle Controller for firmware management. For a dense node that consolidates many workloads, reliable remote hands matter, and iDRAC8 covers day-to-day operation.
Against the 14th gen iDRAC9 it lacks the Silicon Root of Trust firmware-integrity chain and System Lockdown. For regulated workloads under firmware-integrity mandates, that points to the R740xd; for most dense-SSD virtualization and storage roles it does not bite.
Power and Cooling
Twenty-four active SSDs plus two rear drives plus dual high-TDP CPUs draw more than the capacity-tier 12-Bay build, and a fully loaded node can approach 900W under sustained load. 1100W is the volume PSU specification here, not 750W.
| Workload Profile | Typical Draw | PSU Recommendation |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate: dual 120W CPU, 256-512 GB RAM, 24 SAS SSD, 10 GbE | 480-650W | 2 x 1100W Platinum redundant |
| vSAN node: dual 145W CPU, 512 GB to 1 TB RAM, 26 SSD, dual PERC, 25 GbE | 650-880W | 2 x 1100W Platinum redundant |
| Maximum: dual 145W CPU, 1.5 TB RAM, 26 SSD, dual PERC, 25 GbE | 820-1000W | 2 x 1100W Platinum redundant |
PSU options are 495W, 750W, 1100W AC, and 1100W DC for HVDC datacenters. Most 24-bay builds want 1100W for headroom; the smaller PSUs suit only lightly populated configurations. Cooling is handled by six hot-swap dual-rotor fans, and the denser drive population runs the fan profile harder than the 12-Bay build, so datacenter ambient temperatures matter.
Physical Specs and Platform Notes
- Form factor: 2U rack, standard 19" mount. The R730xd shares the R730's chassis dimensions at roughly 684mm deep without the bezel and about 723mm with it; budget additional depth for the cable management arm.
- PCIe expansion: up to seven PCIe Gen3 slots depending on riser, in a mix of full-height and low-profile.
- Parts availability: excellent through 2026-2027, with a deep secondary-market pool for CPUs, DDR4, 2.5" SAS SSDs, PERC controllers, PSUs, and rNDCs. Dell ProSupport on this generation has reached end-of-service; third-party maintenance is the standard production path.
- Accessories we recommend: the 2U B6 ReadyRails II sliding rail kit, the 13th gen 2U security bezel, and a cable management arm.
- Platform notes: confirm rack depth including cable management arm clearance before ordering. There is no BOSS module on this generation; the rear flex bay is the boot device. Front-bay NVMe is limited to specific backplane SKUs. CPU hot-plug is not supported.
Our Assessment
Where it excels: Maximum-density SFF storage at 13th gen pricing is this variant's purpose. vSAN OSA hyperconverged nodes at full per-node drive count, dense SQL Server, Oracle, or PostgreSQL on local SAS SSD, high-density virtualization at high VM counts per node, and scale-out SSD storage clusters all map cleanly to twenty-six SFF drives in 2U with a flexible two-bay rear tier.
Where to look instead: For bulk NL-SAS HDD capacity, the R730xd 12-Bay 3.5" is the right chassis. Where sixteen SFF bays cover the need, the R730 16-Bay 2.5" is lower cost. For vSAN ESA or NVMe-native architectures, or storage planned to run four or more years, the R740xd 24-Bay 2.5" brings iDRAC9, the 8 GB H740P, faster memory, and a longer support horizon.
Bottom line: This is the densest 13th gen SSD node available and the cost-correct call when drive count and IOPS per 2U are the design drivers on a two-to-four-year horizon. Spec it with higher CPU and memory than a capacity node, plan on 1100W PSUs and often dual PERC, and step up to the R740xd when platform currency, the larger cache, or a longer support window justify the premium. We will quote both side by side so the generation decision is grounded in current cost.
Honest Limitations
- 26 drives is the chassis ceiling. Twenty-four SFF front plus two SFF rear is the maximum in the generation. Higher density means external SAS shelves or a 14th gen platform.
- Front-bay NVMe is constrained. Up to four NVMe drives on specific backplane SKUs, not all twenty-four bays. For NVMe-dense architectures the R750 or R760 are the right platforms.
- vSAN HCL status for 13th gen is narrowing. VMware vSAN compatibility on E5-2600 v3/v4 is in transition; verify the HCL for your planned vSphere version at quote time. For long-term vSAN, 14th gen or newer is the longer-horizon investment.
- Sustained power draw is real. Twenty-four SSDs, dual high-TDP CPUs, dual PERC, and 25 GbE can exceed 900W; size rack PDUs accordingly and plan on 1100W PSUs.
- Cooling and acoustics run harder than the 12-Bay build. Twenty-four active drives generate more heat; datacenter ambient temperature matters.
- Configuration is complex. Twenty-four front bays, two rear bays, single or dual PERC, multiple RAID layouts, and vSAN disk-group math make BOM specification non-trivial; we walk through it at quote time.
- All 13th gen platform constraints apply. iDRAC8 rather than iDRAC9, DDR4 capped at 2400 MT/s, no BOSS module, no Optane, PERC tops out at the H730P, PCIe Gen3 ceiling, Dell ProSupport end-of-service. The R630 10-Bay platform page covers these in full.
- Plan rack depth. At roughly 684mm (723mm with bezel) plus cable management arm clearance, confirm rack depth before ordering.
Workload Fit
| Excels at | Where to look elsewhere |
|---|---|
| vSAN OSA at maximum per-node drive count | vSAN ESA (needs Gen4 NVMe, use 15th gen) |
| Dense SQL Server or Oracle on local SAS SSD | Bulk NL-SAS capacity (use R730xd 12-Bay 3.5") |
| Hyperconverged compute and storage in 2U | Sixteen SFF bays sufficient (use R730 16-Bay) |
| Scale-out SSD storage clusters | Four-plus-year horizons (use R740xd or R750) |
| High-density virtualization (high VM count per node) | NVMe-native architectures (use R750 or R760) |
| Tiered storage with a 2-bay SSD rear tier | iDRAC9 firmware integrity required (use R740xd) |
Where to Look Instead
- R730xd 12-Bay 3.5" + RFB: the same platform in a large-form-factor chassis, for bulk NL-SAS HDD capacity instead of dense SSD.
- R730 16-Bay 2.5": the dense SFF build on the standard R730 chassis, lower cost when sixteen bays are enough and the rear flex bay is not needed.
- R730 8-Bay 2.5": the general-purpose 2U platform page for full R730 PCIe, GPU, and PSU detail.
- R740xd 24-Bay 2.5": the 14th gen successor with iDRAC9, the 8 GB PERC H740P, faster memory, and NVMe-native backplane options, when the deployment justifies stepping up a generation.
- R630 10-Bay 2.5": the 1U platform page for full 13th gen processor, memory, and management detail.
- HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9 24-Bay 2.5": the cross-vendor Gen9 equivalent for shops standardized on HPE.
Ready to Configure?
Tell us your workload (vSAN, dense virtualization, database, or scale-out storage), target SSD count and capacity, RAID requirement, single or dual PERC preference, the rear-flex-bay role (boot mirror or fast tier), CPU and memory sizing, networking speed (10 GbE minimum, 25 GbE recommended), and quantity. We respond within 24 hours.
For vSAN deployments, share your target cluster size, vSphere version, and HCL constraints; we will verify R730xd 24-Bay compatibility and size cache and capacity disk groups appropriately, and we will show this build next to the R740xd 24-Bay so the generation decision is grounded in current cost.
Every Wholesale Servers R730xd ships after a 12+ hour burn-in covering every PCIe slot, every memory channel, and every drive bay, and carries a standard 180-day warranty with 1-Year, 2-Year, and 3-Year Premium options for production horizons. Volume pricing applies at 5 units and above. Call 1-800-778-1545 or use the quote form on this page to start.
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