DELL PowerEdge R740xd2 2U 26 Bay 3.5" 2x Xeon Gold 6154 18C 3.0GHz 64GB DDR4 H730P iDRAC9 2x 1100W

High-density 2U storage server

The Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd2 is a 2U rack server built for data-intensive workloads that demand maximum 3.5-inch drive capacity. It ships with two Intel Xeon Gold 6154 processors, each delivering 18 cores at 3.0 GHz with a 3.7 GHz turbo frequency. The system includes 64 GB of DDR4-2666 ECC registered memory across 16 slots and a PERC H730P controller with 2 GB cache supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60. Dual 1100 W platinum power supplies and iDRAC 9 Enterprise provide redundancy and remote management.

Suited for archive and software-defined storage

This platform fits organisations deploying backup repositories, media archives or software-defined storage clusters that need 26 front-accessible 3.5-inch bays in a 2U footprint. The dual 10/25 GbE SFP28 OCP 2.0 mezzanine card and dual 1 GbE LOM give flexible networking for high-throughput data ingest. Buyers who need GPU compute sleds, 2.5-inch bay density or a smaller rack footprint should evaluate alternative platforms.

26-bay 3.5-inch chassis capacity

The defining specification is the 26-bay 3.5-inch chassis that delivers raw capacity unavailable in standard 2U servers. With 1 TB maximum memory, dual-socket Xeon Scalable performance and a hardware RAID controller supporting mixed SAS and SATA drives, the R740xd2 scales from dense backup targets to large-scale analytics nodes without expanding to a 4U form factor.