DELL PowerEdge R640 40-Core Rack Server 2x Xeon Gold 6138 128GB DDR4 H730 10x 2.5" Trays

Purpose-built rack server

The Dell PowerEdge R640 is a 1U rackmount server system designed for business workloads such as virtualization, databases, file storage, backups and application hosting. It ships new with two Intel Xeon Gold 6138 processors installed, delivering 40 total cores at 2.00GHz. The system includes 128GB of DDR4 memory and an H730 storage controller. Ten 2.5-inch drive bays provide high-density storage capacity, with eight bays supporting NVMe drives.

Fit for virtualization and mixed workloads

This configuration suits IT teams consolidating multiple virtual machines, running business applications or hosting databases that benefit from high core counts and large memory capacity. The NVMe-capable bays accelerate storage-heavy tasks. Buyers who need GPU acceleration for AI, rendering or high-performance computing should look elsewhere, as only integrated graphics are present. Organisations requiring more than two processor sockets or memory beyond the 3TB maximum will need a different platform.

Ten 2.5-inch bays with eight NVMe slots

The chassis provides ten front-accessible 2.5-inch drive bays, and eight of those bays are NVMe-capable. This layout determines how many high-speed solid-state drives can be installed directly without additional enclosures or adapters. Drive selection is left to the buyer, as no storage drives are included. The H730 controller manages RAID configuration for the installed drives.