Dell PowerEdge R430 Server Overview

Dell R430 chassis makes good cooling design handled by a bank of six cold-swap, dual rotor fans in front of the motherboard while the CPU sockets and attendant DIMM slots are covered by a removable plastic air shroud.

Memory allotment is slightly unusual as the eight front slots are assigned to the first CPU socket while the second socket gets four slots. The main advantage here is you can cut costs by specifying a single CPU and still upgrade to 256GB of memory.

Dell’s embedded LifeCycle Controller makes OS deployment as we used it to install Windows Server 2012 R2 with all the right drivers inside 30 minutes The server was supplied with dual 1.6GHz E5-2603 Xeons and redundant 550W Platinum PSUs which proved to be easy on the power supply.

Our configuration Tips: 10-bay model only supports SATA SFF drives. PowerEdge R430 is an ideal choice where server rack space is at a premium. It packs a lot of processing power into its compact chassis and delivers it at a very competitive price