DELL PowerEdge R540 12 Bay 3.5" 2U rack server 2x Xeon Gold 6130 2.1GHz 16GB DDR4 H730P

Dell PowerEdge R540 12 Bay Server

The Dell EMC PowerEdge R540 is a 2U rack server built for growing business and data-centre environments. It ships with two Intel Xeon Gold 6130 processors running at 2.1 GHz with a 3.7 GHz turbo frequency. Sixteen cores in total provide the compute foundation for virtualization, database workloads and software-defined storage. Sixteen gigabytes of DDR4-2666 ECC registered memory and a PERC H730P RAID controller with battery complete the core configuration.

Suits virtualization hosts

This server suits teams that need twelve 3.5-inch drive bays for high-capacity SAS or SATA arrays and hardware RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 or 60. Dual 750-watt platinum power supplies and iDRAC 9 Express remote management support continuous operation. Buyers who need front bezel or ready rails included, or who require more than the supplied sixteen gigabytes of memory for their workload, should evaluate other configurations.

Twelve 3.5-inch drive bays with H730P RAID

The defining specification is the twelve-bay 3.5-inch chassis paired with the PERC H730P controller offering 2 GB cache and 12 Gb/s SAS/SATA connectivity. This combination determines how many drives you can install and which RAID modes are available. The dual Xeon Gold 6130 CPUs and DDR4-2666 ECC memory support the storage throughput, but the bay count and controller set the storage ceiling.