DELL PowerEdge R740xd 24SFF 2x Xeon Gold 6140 384GB DDR4 No Drive rack server

Dense 24-bay compute platform

The Dell PowerEdge R740xd chassis fits 24 2.5-inch drive bays in a 2U rack footprint. Dual Xeon Gold 6140 processors deliver 36 cores at 2.3GHz with 24.75MB cache per CPU. 384GB of DDR4 ECC registered memory is installed and a PERC H730P RAID controller manages storage. Dual 1100W power supplies and an iDRAC9 Enterprise licence complete the base configuration.

Suits storage-heavy workloads

Database clusters, virtualisation hosts and software-defined storage nodes benefit from the high bay count and large memory capacity. The integrated 10GbE two-port 562T adapter provides fast network connectivity. Buyers who need GPU acceleration or more than two processor sockets should consider other platforms. Systems requiring pre-populated drives must add them separately.

24 front 2.5-inch bays decide fit

The single specification that determines suitability is the 24-bay 2.5-inch front chassis. It sets the maximum number of hot-swap drives and the physical space available for storage expansion. If the deployment needs fewer bays or 3.5-inch drives, a different chassis is required. All other specifications scale around this bay count.