DELL PowerEdge R740 8LFF 2x Xeon Gold 6140 2.3GHz 768GB DDR4 No Drive rack server

Chassis with eight 3.5-inch bays

The Dell PowerEdge R740 is a 2U rack server built around a chassis that holds up to eight 3.5-inch SATA drives. It ships with dual Intel Xeon Gold 6140 processors running at 2.3 GHz, each delivering 18 cores, and 768 GB of DDR4 ECC registered memory. A PERC H730P RAID controller and an integrated 10 GbE 562T two-port adapter are included, while iDRAC9 Enterprise provides remote management. No drives are installed, so storage capacity is chosen separately.

Suited for memory-heavy virtualization.

This configuration fits environments that need large memory capacity per node, such as virtualization clusters, in-memory databases or analytics workloads that benefit from 768 GB of DDR4. The eight 3.5-inch bays favour high-capacity hard drives rather than dense solid-state layouts, so buyers who want an all-flash array in a 2U form factor should look at a different chassis. The dual-socket design maxes out at two processors, ruling out four-socket scaling.

768 GB DDR4 installed memory

The system arrives with 768 GB of DDR4 ECC registered RAM installed across the available DIMM slots. The platform supports a maximum of 3 TB, so additional modules can be added later if the workload grows. Because the memory type is fixed to DDR4, any expansion must use the same generation; other DDR standards are not compatible.