DELL PowerEdge R740 2x Gold 6132 14C 128GB 2x 300GB 10K SAS H730P rack server

2U Rack Server for Dense Compute

The Dell PowerEdge R740 is a 2U rack server equipped with two Intel Gold 6132 processors, each running at 2.6 GHz with 14 cores and 19.25 MB cache. It ships with 128 GB of DDR4 memory configured as eight 16 GB modules at 2666 MT/s. Two 300 GB 10K SAS drives and an H730P RAID controller provide the initial storage foundation.

Drive Bays and Expansion Slots

The chassis supports up to eight 2.5-inch drive bays, leaving six bays open for additional SAS or SSD capacity. Up to eight PCIe Gen 3 slots are available for GPU, networking or storage accelerators. An Intel X550 network daughter card delivers two 10 Gb RJ45 and two 1 Gb RJ45 ports, while dual 1100 W redundant power supplies and iDRAC9 Enterprise remote management complete the infrastructure kit.

Suits Virtualisation Hosts Not GPU Farms

This configuration suits organisations consolidating virtual machines or running memory-intensive databases that benefit from 28 total cores and 128 GB RAM. Buyers who need more internal storage than eight 2.5-inch bays allow, or who require newer PCIe generations for high-bandwidth accelerators, should evaluate alternative platforms.