The Dell PowerEdge R730 - An Introduction to AI Servers

-Bob Pellerin's “CTOBOB” provides an overview of the Dell PowerEdge R730. This 2U server provides room to grow and is great for storage or for Artificial Intelligence applications.

This PowerEdge R730 features:
- 2U
- Dual socket
- Intel Xeon E5-26xx v4 processors
- 24x DIMMS (each can be up to 32 GB DDR4-2133 for 768 total RAM)
- 8x 3.5" bays or 16x 2.5" bays at the front
- Intel C610 chipset
- Dual hot-plug Power Supply (495W, 750W, 1100W, or 1600W)
- Optional PERC H730P RAID controller with 2GB cache
- Optional IDrac Enterprise
- Optional Dual SD module
- Optional GPU (NVidia K10, K20, K80)

Comments:
If you're looking for great performance in a system with room to grow this is a great server to consider. It's a great value.

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[brandonjohnson]

Love the review my friend. I own every top option model of dell's 13th and 14th gen servers from R230 all the way to R930 as well with the 14th gens. Each gen has their own server racks with dells S6100-ON switches running 40Gb ports with 40Gb to four 10Gb split cables. Each server having multiple ethernet ports for keeping uptime and diverting traffic. I use the R230 and R240 as encrypted firewalls with VPN routed traffic using Wireguard to each server for more advanced protection.

I'm considering adding an nvidia T4 to the R730, would have loved if you showed how to do that. Any difficulties or tips?

[rongray]

Seemed like a great review. I'm looking at a 710 for a home lab. Thanks for sharing your info.

[bulcub]

did the connector come with the K80? and what is it a male or female. did you have to download k80 drivers?

[billcameron]

was already a subscriber. 👍. do you have any recommendations for a server reseller in Canada?

[IggyWhite]

What puts a limit to max storage amount? With 16 4TB SATA drives it should be 64TB instead of 29TB. Is there a physical limit in some controller, it was it just a number based on largest available drives when the server was first introduced? Great content, btw. :)

[KiraSlith]

Was hoping to see the PCIe slot config on all 3 risers.

[frankwalder]

The 730 with v4 CPUs will take 2400MHz DIMMs.

[evelbsstudio]

Intel network is better broadcom have a host of problems with drivers.

10g daughter boards are cheap.

[yudhasetiamulya]

ATAS -> ATAS -> BAWAH -> BAWAH -> KOTAK
KANAN -> KIRI -> KANAN -> KANAN -> BULAT