DELL PowerEdge R740xd 12LFF 2x Xeon Gold 6244 256GB DDR4

12-bay 3.5-inch rack server

The Dell PowerEdge R740xd is a 2U rack-mount server system fitted with twelve 3.5-inch drive bays and dual Intel Xeon Gold 6244 processors running at 3.6 GHz. It ships with 256 GB of DDR4 ECC registered memory and a PERC H730P RAID controller, while storage drives are not included. Remote management is handled by iDRAC9 with an Enterprise licence and dual 1100 W power supplies provide redundancy.

Suits dense storage workloads, not all-flash builds

Organisations needing high local capacity in a compact rack footprint will match the twelve SATA bays and 3 TB maximum memory ceiling. Buyers who want more than twelve drive bays or a backplane limited to a different drive interface should look elsewhere. The integrated graphics and 10 GbE 562T adapter cover basic display and network needs without extra cards.

Twelve 3.5-inch bays define capacity ceiling

The single specification that decides fit is the twelve 3.5-inch drive bay count, which caps the number of SATA drives the chassis can hold. If the deployment requires a higher bay count or a different form factor, this server will not meet the requirement.