Expansion Bus Specifications; Memory Specifications; Drive Specifications; Hard Drives - Dell EMC PowerEdge R730xd Owner's Manual

Expansion bus specifications

The PowerEdge R730xd system supports PCI express (PCIe) generation 3 expansion cards, which need to be installed on
the system board using expansion card risers. This system supports three types of expansion card risers. The following table
provides the expansion card riser specifications:
Table 18. Expansion card riser specifications
Expansion card riser
Riser 1
Riser 1
Riser 1
Riser 2
Riser 2
Riser 3 (alternate)
When using slots 1 through 4 on the riser, ensure that both the processors are installed on the system.
NOTE:

Memory specifications

The PowerEdge R730xd system supports DDR4 registered DIMMs (RDIMMs) and load-reduced DIMMs (LRDIMMs). Supported
memory bus frequencies are 1333MT/s, 1600 MT/s, 1866 MT/s, 2133MT/s, or 2400 MT/s.
Table 19. Memory specifications
Memory module
sockets
Twenty-four 288–pin

Drive specifications

Hard drives

The PowerEdge R730xd system supports SAS, SATA, Nearline SAS hard drives and Solid State Drives (SSDs).
Table 20. Supported hard drive and SSD options for the PowerEdge R730xd system
Drives
Fourteen hard drive systems
Eighteen hard drive systems
Twenty six hard drive systems
PCIe slots on the riser
Slot 1
Slot 2
Slot 3
Slot 4
Slot 5
Slot 6
Memory capacity
● 64 GB or 128 GB quad rank
(LRDIMMs)
● 4 GB or 8 GB single rank
(RDIMMs)
● 8 GB, 16 GB, or 32 GB dual
rank (RDIMMs)
Height Length
half-height low-profile
half-height low-profile
half-height low-profile
full-height full-length
full-height full-length
full-height full-length
Minimum RAM
● 4 GB with single processor
● 8 GB with dual processors
(minimum one memory
module per processor)
Specifications
Up to twelve 3.5-inch hard drives and two optional 2.5-inch
back-accessible hard drives.
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.
Up to twenty-four 2.5-inch hard drives and two optional 2.5-
inch back-accessible hard drives.
Link
x8
x8
x8
x16
x8
x16
Maximum RAM
● LRDIMM up to 1,536 GB
with a single processor
● LRDIMM up to 3,072 GB
with dual processors
● RDIMM up to 384 GB with
a single processor
● RDIMM up to 768 GB with
a dual processor
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