DELL PowerEdge R740 2U Rack Server 2x Gold 6142 16C 512GB 2x 2TB 7.2K NL H740P

Built for virtualisation density

The Dell EMC PowerEdge R740 fits two Intel Gold 6142 processors, each with 16 cores, into a 2U rack chassis. With 512 GB of DDR4 memory installed across sixteen 32 GB modules, it is aimed at organisations running heavily consolidated workloads or large in-memory databases.

Storage ceiling set by bay count

The chassis provides eight 2.5-inch drive bays, so total raw capacity stops at eight drives regardless of controller. The H740P RAID adapter manages the two installed 2 TB 7.2K NL SAS disks, but any expansion is bounded by the physical bay limit.

Sixteen cores per socket decides fit

Each Gold 6142 delivers 16 cores at 2.6 GHz with 19.25 MB cache, fixing the per-socket thread count at 32. Buyers who need more cores per CPU must choose a different processor; this configuration cannot exceed 32 threads per socket.