DELL PowerEdge R740xd 12LFF 2x Xeon Silver 4210 1TB RAM No Drive

12-Bay 3.5-Inch Rack Server

This new Dell PowerEdge R740xd chassis supports twelve 3.5-inch drive bays in a 2U rack-mount form factor. It ships with two Intel Xeon Silver 4210 processors running at 2.2 GHz, each providing ten cores. The system includes 1 TB of DDR4 ECC registered memory and a PERC H730P RAID controller. No drives are installed, allowing custom storage configuration.

Suited for Dense Storage Workloads

Organisations building capacity-oriented arrays, backup targets, or software-defined storage clusters can populate the twelve bays with SATA hard drives. The dual-processor layout and large memory footprint handle concurrent I/O streams and metadata operations. Buyers who need all-flash performance, GPU acceleration, or a 1U footprint should evaluate alternative platforms.

Twelve 3.5-Inch Drive Bays

The defining specification is the twelve-bay 3.5-inch chassis, which sets the maximum raw capacity and physical density of the deployment. Combined with the PERC H730P controller, it determines the RAID topology and throughput ceiling for the installed SATA drives. Confirm that the rack depth and power budget accommodate the 36-inch depth and dual 1100 W supplies before ordering.