DELL PowerEdge R740xd 12x3.5" 1x Xeon Silver 4214 32GB DDR4 No Drive

Dense 3.5-inch storage server

The Dell PowerEdge R740xd chassis holds up to 12 large-form-factor drives in a 2U rack frame. One Xeon Silver 4214 processor at 2.2 GHz with 12 cores and 16.5 MB cache drives the platform. 32 GB of DDR4 ECC registered memory is installed across two 16 GB modules. A PERC H730P RAID controller manages the SATA backplane.

Suits cold-data archives and backup targets

This configuration fits workloads that prioritise raw capacity over IOPS, such as long-term retention, media libraries or secondary backup repositories. Buyers who need low-latency transactional performance or all-flash density should look elsewhere. The single-socket layout also limits maximum compute throughput for heavily threaded applications.

12-bay 3.5-inch SATA backplane

The chassis provides twelve 3.5-inch drive bays wired to the onboard SATA interface and the PERC H730P controller. This bay count and interface combination is the deciding factor for capacity planning and drive selection.