System Features; Comparison Of Poweredge Systems; Table 2. Comparison Of Poweredge R720/R720Xd And R730/R730Xd - Dell PowerEdge R730 Technical Manual

2 System features

Compared to the previous generation of Dell PowerEdge servers, the R730 and R730xd have more
drive bay options, more PCIe slots, next-generation RAID controllers and advanced system
management.

Comparison of PowerEdge systems

Table 2 compares some of the features of the R730 and R730xd and the R720 and R720xd systems.
Table 2.
Feature
Chassis
Processors
Internal interconnect
1
Memory
Disk drives
RAID controller
PCI slots
Embedded NICs
USB
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Comparison of PowerEdge R720/R720xd and R730/R730xd
PowerEdge R720/R720xd
2U rack
Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v2
product family
Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI)
24 x DDR3 RDIMM, UDIMM, and LRDIMM
Up to 768GB
R720: 16 x 2.5" or 8 x 3.5"
6Gb/s SAS, 3Gb/s SATA
R720xd: 26 x 2.5" SAS SSD, SATA SSD, SAS,
NL-SAS, SATA, SAS 512n or
12 x 3.5" SAS, NL-SAS, SATA + 2 x 2.5" drives
PERC S110 (software RAID), H310, H710,
H710P, H810 (external); support for 2
internal RAID controllers
Max 7 + 1 x PCIe 3.0/6 + 1 x PCIe 3.0
Select Network Adapter NDC
4 x 1GbE, 2 x 10GbE
USB 2.0
PowerEdge R730/R730xd
2U rack
Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v3
product family
Intel QPI
24 x DDR4 RDIMM and LRDIMM
Up to 768GB
R730: 16 x 2.5" HDD: SAS, SATA,
NL-SAS; SSD: SAS, SATA
8 x 3.5" HDD: SAS, SATA,
NL-SAS; SSD: SAS, SATA 12Gb SAS,
6Gb SATA
R730xd: 18 x 1.8" SSD: SATA
24 x 2.5" + 2 x 2.5" HDD: SAS, SATA,
NL-SAS; SSD: SAS, SATA, up to 4
NVMe Express Flash PCIe
16 x 3.5" + 2 x 2.5" HDD: SAS, SATA,
NL-SAS; SSD: SAS, SATA
PERC S130 (software RAID), H330,
H730, H730P, H830 (external);
support for 2 internal RAID controllers
Max 7 + 1 x PCIe 3.0/6 + 1 x PCIe 3.0
option to eliminate Riser 1
Select Network Adapter NDC
4 x 1GbE, 2 x 10GbE, 4 x 10GbE
USB 3.0 (back and internal ports only)