Dell PowerEdge R730xd vs HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerEdge R730xd is an enterprise 2U rack server powered by 2 Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 and E5-2600 v4 Series Processors (up to 22 cores per socket, 145W TDP) and 24 memory slots supporting up to 3072GB DDR4-2133 / DDR4-2400 RDIMM /… The HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9 is the benchmark 2U dual-socket enterprise rack server of its generation, widely deployed across enterprise IT for virtualization, database servers, and ERP workloads.
| Dell PowerEdge R730xd | HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | HPE |
| Status | end-of-support | end-of-sale |
| Released | Sep 2014 | Sep 2014 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 2U rack |
| Cpu sockets | 2 | 2 |
| Cpu platform | Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 and E5-2600 v4 Series Processors (up to 22 cores per socket, 145W TDP) | Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 / v4 series up to 22 cores |
| Memory slots | 24 | 24 |
| Memory type | DDR4-2133 / DDR4-2400 RDIMM / LRDIMM | DDR4-2133 / DDR4-2400 SmartMemory RDIMM / LRDIMM |
| Memory max (GB) | 3,072 | 3,072 |
| Drive bays | Up to 24x 2.5-inch front (plus 2x rear 2.5-inch) or 12x 3.5-inch front (plus 4x mid 3.5-inch and 2x rear 2.5-inch) | Up to 24 SFF SAS/SATA or 12 LFF SAS/SATA plus rear drives |
| Pcie slots | Up to 6 PCIe Gen3 slots | Up to 6 PCIe 3.0 expansion slots |
| Gpu support | None supported | — |
| Network onboard | Network Daughter Card (NDC) slot; 1x 1GbE iDRAC8 dedicated port | — |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-plug 750W or 1100W Platinum/Titanium | HPE 500W, 800W, or 1400W Flex Slot Platinum hot-plug |
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