The refurbished Dell PowerEdge R650 is a dual-socket 1U rack server built for organizations that need serious compute density without sacrificing rack space. This is a professionally rebuilt machine pulled from a real data center environment — not a showroom unit — and it's been fully tested and configured to order. If you're stacking nodes or building out a dense compute cluster, the R650 earns its slot.
Under the hood, the R650 runs on 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors — up to two of them, with options ranging from Silver 4309Y eight-core CPUs to Platinum 8380 forty-core workhorses. Memory tops out at 2TB DDR4 across 32 DIMM slots, with speed options at 2666MHz, 2933MHz, and 3200MHz. On the storage side, a BOSS-S2 controller with dual 240GB SATA M.2 SSDs is available for OS boot, keeping things clean and fast. OCP 3.0 and PCIe Gen 4 expansion round out the connectivity picture.
This is a workhorse platform that thrives in environments like:
- High-density compute clusters and cloud-native infrastructure buildouts
- Virtualization hosts running VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, or KVM — where you want max cores per U
- Database workloads that benefit from large memory capacity and fast DDR4 speeds
- Containerized application hosting where CPU thread count matters more than local storage
- HPC environments running parallel workloads across tightly coupled nodes
- CI/CD pipeline servers and build infrastructure that need consistent, high-core throughput
Power is handled by dual redundant Platinum-efficiency PSUs — 800W base, with 1400W and 2400W options available depending on your load requirements. Remote management runs through iDRAC9 with Lifecycle Controller; an Enterprise license upgrade is available if you need full remote KVM and telemetry access. The R650 also supports a TPM module for hardware-based security — worth knowing if your compliance requirements call for it.
A used Dell PowerEdge R650 of this generation still commands serious pricing on the secondary market, and for good reason — it's genuinely enterprise-grade hardware. Every unit we sell is professionally refurbished, fully tested, and configured exactly to your spec before it ships. You're getting a 15th Gen Dell platform at a significant discount off new pricing, backed by a 90-day warranty.
At The Server Store, we don't just sell pre-owned Dell PowerEdge R650 servers — we configure them, test them, and make sure you're getting exactly the system you need. Our team is available by phone or chat whenever you need us. Browse our full selection of professionally refurbished, custom-configured servers and IT equipment at The Server Store.
