About Your System; Supported Configurations - Dell PowerEdge R730 Owner's Manual

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
Eight-hard-drive systems Up to eight 3.5 inch hard drives or 2.5 inch hard drives.
Sixteen-hard-drive
systems
PowerEdge R730xd
Systems
Twelve plus two–hard-
drive systems
Sixteen plus two-hard-
drive systems
Twenty-four plus two–
hard-drive systems
Twenty-six plus two–
hard-drive systems
Configurations
Up to sixteen 2.5 inch hard drives.
Configurations
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.
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.
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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