DELL PowerEdge R740xd 24SFF Xeon Silver 6130 128GB DDR4 No Drive

Dense 24-bay rack server

The Dell PowerEdge R740xd fits 24 hot-swap 2.5-inch bays into a 2U chassis, giving storage-heavy workloads room to scale without spreading across multiple nodes. One Xeon Silver 6130 at 2.1 GHz supplies 16 cores and 22 MB cache, while 128 GB of DDR4 ECC registered memory handles large working sets. A PERC H730P RAID controller and dual 1100 W power supplies complete the baseline configuration.

Storage-focused teams, not compute-only buyers

This platform suits databases, object stores or backup targets that need many drives behind a single RAID controller. Buyers who want more storage bays than a standard 2U server offers will benefit; those who need maximum per-core frequency, GPU acceleration or a second CPU pre-installed should evaluate alternatives.

24-drive 2.5-inch capacity decides fit

The defining constraint is the 24-bay 2.5-inch backplane: if the deployment requires that density in 2U, this chassis matches; if the workload needs fewer, larger drives or a different form factor, another server is appropriate.