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About your system
The Dell PowerEdge R730 and R730xd systems are rack servers that support up to two Intel Xeon
E5-2600 v3 processors, up to 24 DIMMs, and 28 hard drives/SSDs.
NOTE: The R730 and R730xd systems support only internal, hot-swappable hard drives.
Supported configurations
PowerEdge R730
Systems
Configurations
Eight-hard-drive systems Up to eight 3.5 inch hard drives or 2.5 inch hard drives.
Sixteen-hard-drive
systems
Up to sixteen 2.5 inch hard drives.
PowerEdge R730xd
Systems
Configurations
Twelve plus two–hard-
drive systems
Up to twelve 3.5 inch hard drives and two optional 2.5 inch back-accessible
hard drives.
Sixteen plus two-hard-
drive systems
Up to twelve 3.5 inch hard drives, two optional 2.5 inch back-accessible hard
drives and four 3.5 inch hard drives in the middle hard-drive tray.
Twenty-four plus two–
hard-drive systems
Up to twenty-four 2.5 inch hard drives and two optional 2.5 inch back
accessible hard drives.
Up to twenty 2.5 inch hard drives, up to four 2.5 inch Dell PowerEdge
Express Flash devices (PCIe SSD) and up to two optional 2.5 inch back-
accessible hard drives.
Twenty-six plus two–
hard-drive systems
Up to eighteen 1.8 inch hard drives, up to eight 3.5 inch hard drives and up to
two 2.5 inch back-accessible, hard drives.
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