DELL PowerEdge R540 2U 8-bay 2× Xeon Silver 4114 2.2 GHz 32 GB DDR4 H730P 8× 4 TB SAS

2U 8-bay server with dual Xeon Silver 4114

The Dell PowerEdge R540 is a 2U rack server fitted with two Intel Xeon Silver 4114 processors running at 2.2 GHz with a 3.0 GHz turbo. It includes 32 GB of DDR4 memory across 16 slots and a PERC H730P controller with 2 GB cache. Eight 3.5-inch 4 TB SAS drives spinning at 7.2K rpm provide 32 TB of raw storage. Redundant 750 W power supplies, iDRAC9 Enterprise, rails and bezel complete the package.

Virtualisation hosts needing high drive count.

This system suits teams running virtualisation clusters, database instances or file services that benefit from many large SAS spindles and dual-socket compute. The 16 DIMM slots allow growth to 384 GB for memory-heavy workloads. Organisations that require sub-millisecond latency or an all-flash array should consider a platform built around solid-state media.

Eight 3.5-inch bays wired to a PERC H730P controller

The chassis accepts eight 3.5-inch SAS or SATA drives connected to the H730P RAID card, which supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 plus pass-through. This bay count and controller combination determines how much spinning media you can install and which redundancy schemes are available. Confirm that your workload fits within eight 3.5-inch drive slots before ordering.