DELL PowerEdge R740xd 2U Rack Server 2x Xeon Silver 4110 2.1GHz 512GB DDR4 H730P 2x 300GB SAS

Dense 2U Storage Platform

The Dell PowerEdge R740xd is a 2U rack server designed for workloads that demand high drive density in a compact chassis. It ships with two Intel Xeon Silver 4110 8-core processors at 2.1 GHz and 512 GB of DDR4 registered ECC memory across sixteen modules. A PERC H730P controller with 2 GB cache manages the twenty-four 2.5-inch SAS bays, which currently hold two 300 GB 10K drives.

Virtualisation and SDS Ready

This configuration suits teams deploying software-defined storage, virtual desktop infrastructure or dense virtualisation clusters where internal capacity matters. The dual 1100 W platinum power supplies and iDRAC9 Enterprise provide redundancy and remote control. Buyers who need more than twenty-four drive bays or who require a different drive interface will need a different platform.

Twenty-Four 2.5-Inch SAS Bays

The single specification that decides fit is the twenty-four-bay 2.5-inch SAS backplane driven by the H730P controller. It supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60 and pass-through modes, so the server can scale from a small mirrored pair to a large parity array without changing hardware.