Specifications - Dell External OEMR XL R720XD Technical Manual

Compared to the previous generation of Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers, the R720 and R720xd have
more drive bay options, more PCIe slots, a larger memory footprint, flexible I/O, Express Flash PCIe
solid-state drives (available Q2 2012), advanced system management, and hot-plug redundant
cooling. The R720 also supports optional dual internal RAID controllers and up to four optional
internal GPUs.
Table 2 lists the technical specifications for the PowerEdge R720 and R720xd systems. For the latest
information on supported features, visit Dell.com.
Feature
Form factor
Processors
Processor sockets
Front side bus (FSB)
Cache
Chipset
1
Memory
PCIe slots
RAID controller
Hard drives
(hot-plug)
PowerEdge R720 and R720xd Technical Guide
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Specification
2U rack
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Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family
2
2 Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) links; 6.4 GT/s; 7.2 GT/s; 8.0 GT/s
2.5MB per core; core options: 2, 4, 6, 8
Intel C600
Up to 768GB (24 DIMM slots): 2GB/4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB DDR3 up to 1600MT/s
R720:
7 PCIe slots:
One x16 full-length, full-height
Three x8 full-length, full-height
Three x8 half-length, half-height
Internal controllers:
PERC S110 (software RAID; R720 only)
PERC H310
PERC H710
PERC H710P
R720 drive bay options:

Up to 16 x 2.5"

Up to 8 x 2.5" + 8 x 2.5" (with dual RAID controllers)

Up to 8 x 2.5"

Up to 8 x 2.5" + 4 x 2.5" Express Flash
R720xd drive bay options:

Up to 24 x 2.5" (front) + 2 x 2.5" (back) or

Up to 12 x 3.5" (front) + 2 x 2.5" (back)
Hard drive options:

2.5" SAS SSD, SATA SSD, SAS (15K, 10K), nearline SAS (7.2K), SATA (7.2K)

2.5" Express Flash PCIe SSD

3.5" SAS (15K), nearline SAS (7.2K), SATA (7.2K)
Self-encrypting drives (SEDs) available
R720xd:
6 PCIe slots:
Two x16 full-length, full-height
One x8 full-length, full-height
Three x8 half-length, half-height
External HBAs (RAID):
PERC H810
External HBAs (non-RAID):
6Gbps SAS HBA
2
or up to 8 x 3.5"
2
(R720 only)