DELL PowerEdge R540 2U rack server 12 bay 3.5" 2x Xeon Silver 4114 2.2GHz 10 core 256GB DDR4 H730P 12x 4TB HDD

Dell PowerEdge R540 2U server

The Dell PowerEdge R540 is a 2U rack server built for growing business environments. It ships with two Intel Xeon Silver 4114 processors, each offering 10 cores at 2.2GHz with 3.0GHz turbo. The system includes 256GB of DDR4-2400 ECC registered memory and a PERC H730P controller with 2GB cache.

Suits virtualisation and storage workloads

This configuration targets organisations running virtualised infrastructure, databases or software-defined storage that benefit from high core counts and large memory capacity. Twelve 3.5-inch drive bays populated with 4TB 7.2K SATA drives provide substantial raw capacity. Buyers needing GPU acceleration, all-flash performance tiers or single-threaded frequency optimisation should evaluate alternative platforms.

12-bay 3.5-inch chassis with H730P RAID

The defining specification is the 12-bay 3.5-inch chassis paired with the PERC H730P controller supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60. This combination determines how many drives can be installed and which redundancy schemes are available. Dual 750W platinum power supplies and iDRAC9 Express remote management complete the core infrastructure feature set.