Dell PowerEdge R740xd 2U 12x 3.5" 2x Xeon Gold 6148 512GB DDR4 H730P

Storage-dense 2U server for scale-out workloads

The Dell PowerEdge R740xd is a 2U rack server with twelve 3.5-inch drive bays and dual Xeon Gold 6148 processors. Each CPU provides twenty cores at 2.4 GHz with 3.7 GHz turbo, giving forty cores total. The system ships with 512 GB of DDR4-2666 registered ECC memory across sixteen 32 GB modules. A PERC H730P controller with 2 GB cache manages RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60.

Suits teams building software-defined storage

This platform targets organisations that need high internal capacity in a compact rack footprint. The twelve hot-swap trays accept SATA or SAS drives, and the quad-port network daughter card adds two 1 GbE and two 10 Gb SFP+ links. Buyers who require more than two sockets or need direct GPU compute density should evaluate alternative chassis.

Twelve 3.5-inch bays set the storage ceiling

The twelve-bay backplane is the single specification that defines whether this server fits the deployment. Each bay connects through the H730P to the SAS/SATA interface, so total raw capacity scales with the drives chosen. If the workload demands more bays or a different drive form factor, a different chassis is required.