DELL PowerEdge R740xd 2U 24-Bay 2x Xeon Silver 4110 2.1GHz 8C 64GB DDR4 H730P 2x300GB SAS

24-Bay 2U Storage Server

The Dell PowerEdge R740xd is a 2U rack server with twenty-four 2.5-inch drive bays. It ships with two Intel Xeon Silver 4110 processors, each running at 2.1 GHz with eight cores. The system includes 64 GB of DDR4 registered ECC memory across four modules. A PERC H730P controller with 2 GB cache manages the two installed 300 GB 10K SAS drives.

Suits Dense Storage Workloads

This configuration targets software-defined storage, virtual desktop infrastructure or service-provider environments that need high drive density in a 2U form factor. The dual-processor layout and twelve-gigabit SAS backbone support demanding I/O patterns. Buyers who need more than two pre-installed drives or a different drive interface should evaluate alternative platforms. The server maxes out at two CPUs, so workloads requiring four-socket scaling are not a fit.

24-Bay 2.5-Inch Chassis

The defining specification is the twenty-four-bay 2.5-inch chassis that fits in 2U of rack space. This density determines how much local storage the platform can address without external enclosures. The PERC H730P controller supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 plus pass-through mode. Redundant 1100-watt platinum power supplies and iDRAC9 Enterprise remote management complete the core feature set.