11 PowerEdge R730 and R730xd Technical Guide   
Up to 768GB
1
 (24 DIMM slots): 4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB DDR4 up to 2133MT/s 
R730: Up to 7 PCIe 3.0 slots plus  
dedicated PERC slot 
R730xd: Up to 6 PCIe 3.0 slots plus dedicated 
PERC slot 
Internal controllers: 
PERC S130 (software RAID; R730 only) 
PERC H330 
PERC H730 
PERC H730P 
External HBAs (RAID):  
PERC H830 
External HBAs (non-RAID):  
12Gb/s SAS HBA 
R730 internal hard drive bay and hot-plug backplane: 
Up to 16 x 2.5” HDD: SAS, SATA, NL-SAS; SSD: SAS, SATA 
Up to 8 x 3.5” HDD: SAS, SATA, NL-SAS; SSD: SAS, SATA 
R730xd internal hard drive bay and hot-plug backplane: 
Up to 16 x 3.5” SAS, SATA, NL-SAS, SSD + 2 x 2.5” drives 
Up to 18 x 1.8” SAS, SATA, NL-SAS, SSD drives + 8 x 3.5” SAS, SATA, nearline SAS, SSD 
drives, + 2 x 2.5” HDD 
Up to 26 x 2.5” SAS, SATA, NL-SAS, SSD, PCIe SSD drives 
R730:  
Up to 29TB using 16 x 2.5” 1.8TB SAS hard drives 
Up to 48TB using 8 x 3.5” 6TB NL-SAS hard drives  
R730xd: 
Up to 31.9TB using 18 x 1.8” 960GB SATA SSD + 8 x 3.5” 1.8TB SAS HDD 
Up to 43.2TB using 24 x 2.5” 1.8TB SAS HDD + 2 x 2.5” 1.8TB SAS HDD 
Up to 99.6TB using 12 x 3.5” 6TB NL-SAS HDD or SSD + 4 x 3.5” 6TB SAS + 2 x 2.5” 1.8TB 
SAS HDD or SSD 
4 x 1GbE, 2 x 10+2GbE, 4 x 10GbE NDC 
750W AC (Titanium
2
); 495W, 750W or 1100W AC (Platinum
2
); 1100W DC 
ECC memory, hot-plug hard drives, hot-plug redundant cooling, hot-plug redundant 
power, IDSDM, single device data correction (SDDC), spare rank, tool-less chassis, 
support for high availability clustering and virtualization, proactive systems management 
alerts, iDRAC8 with Lifecycle Controller 
IPMI 2.0 compliant 
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