DELL PowerEdge R740 2U rack server 2x Xeon Gold 6148 2.4GHz 20-core 768GB DDR4 8x 300GB SAS H730P

Dual-socket Xeon server for compute-intensive

The PowerEdge R740 is a 2U rack server built around two Intel Xeon Gold 6148 processors, each delivering 20 cores at 2.4 GHz with 3.7 GHz turbo. It ships with 768 GB of DDR4 registered ECC memory across 24 slots, leaving room to grow toward the 3 TB maximum. The platform targets virtualisation clusters, database nodes and high-performance computing tasks that demand dense core counts and large memory footprints.

SAS controller and drive bay limits shape storage

The PERC H730P controller manages eight 2.5-inch SAS bays with 12 Gb/s bandwidth and supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 plus pass-through. Only eight drives fit in the chassis, so raw capacity tops out with the installed 300 GB 10 K spindles unless larger SAS or SATA drives are sourced. The controller’s 2 GB cache and battery-backed write-back accelerate write-heavy workloads, but the bay count remains a hard ceiling for local storage scaling.

Redundant power and remote management simplify

Dual 750 W platinum-efficiency supplies provide hot-swap redundancy, while iDRAC 9 Enterprise enables out-of-band control, monitoring and firmware updates without host OS involvement. The quad-port network daughter card adds two 1 GbE and two 10 Gb SFP+ links for flexible uplink topology. Included ready rails and front bezel streamline rack mounting, though the 2U height and fixed bay layout limit density compared with deeper storage-focused chassis.