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The IBM Power 730 server is a 2U rack-mount server with two processor sockets that offers 8-core 4.3 GHz, 12-core 4.2 GHz, and 16-core 3.6 GHz and 4.2 GHz configurations. The POWER7+ processor chips in this server are 64-bit, available as 4-core, 6-core, and 8-core modules with 10 MB of L3 cache per core and 256 KB of L2 cache per core. The new Power 730 also provides expanded I/O capabilities that use the high-performance Gen2 PCIe interfaces and includes the capability of additional I/O using the 12x PCIe I/O expansion drawers.The Power 730 server supports a maximum of 16 DDR3 DIMM slots, with four DIMM slots included in the base configuration. A maximum of three additional memory riser cards, each containing four DIMM slots, allowing a maximum system memory of 512 GB.The POWER7+ chip includes a hardware accelerator for Active Memory Expansion. This accelerator provides 25% higher levels of memory expansion than available with POWER7 chips. While POWER7 Systems offer up to 100% memory expansion, which can effectively double the server\'s maximum memory, POWER7+ servers offer up to 125% memory expansion for AIX partitions. Thus a system memory maximum of 512 GB can effectively become more than 1024 GB effective memory capacity. The Power 730 server offers three storage backplane options. The first supports three SFF SAS hard disk drives (HDDs) or solid-state drives (SSDs), a SATA DVD, and a half-high tape drive. The second supports six SFF SAS HDDs or SSDs and a SATA DVD. These choices both provide an integrated SAS controller, offering RAID 0, 1, and 10 support. The third option supports six SFF SAS HDDs or SSDs, a SATA DVD, and adds support for Dual Write Cache RAID 5, 6, and an external SAS port. HDDs and SSDs are hot-swap and front accessible with each of the alternatives.The Power 730 includes five PCI Express (PCIe) Gen2 low profile (LP) slots for installing adapters in the system. The system also includes a PCIe x4 Gen2 low profile expansion slot that contains a 4-Port 10/100/1000 Base-TX Ethernet PCI Express adapter
