DELL PowerEdge R740 2U 8-Bay 2x Xeon Silver 4110 768GB DDR4 H730P

PowerEdge R740 2U server for compute-intensive

The Dell PowerEdge R740 is a 2U rack server built for environments that demand high core counts and large memory capacity. It ships with two Intel Xeon Silver 4110 processors, each running at 2.10 GHz with eight cores, and 768 GB of DDR4 registered ECC memory across 24 slots. The platform supports up to 3 TB of RAM and includes a PERC H730P controller with 2 GB cache for RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60. Dual 750 W platinum power supplies and iDRAC9 Enterprise provide redundancy and remote management.

Ideal for virtualisation hosts

This configuration suits teams consolidating virtual machines or running in-memory databases that benefit from 768 GB of DDR4 and dual-socket scaling. The eight 2.5-inch drive bays and 12 Gb/s SAS/SATA controller support mixed HDD and SSD deployments, while the quad-port network daughter card delivers two 1 GbE and two 10 Gb SFP+ links. Buyers who require GPU acceleration or more than two processor sockets should evaluate other platforms because the chassis maxes out at two CPUs and lacks dedicated accelerator slots.

PERC H730P controller

The installed Dell PERC H730P provides hardware RAID across the eight hot-swap bays with a 2 GB non-volatile cache protected by a battery. It manages SAS and SATA drives at 12 Gb/s and enables pass-through mode for software-defined storage stacks. This controller specification determines whether the server can meet your redundancy and performance targets for the attached drive set.