DELL PowerEdge R740xd 24 Bay 2.5" 2U 2x Xeon Silver 4110 2.1GHz 8 Core 256GB DDR4

Dual 8-core Xeon server

The PowerEdge R740xd is a 2U rack server equipped with two Intel Xeon Silver 4110 processors running at 2.1 GHz, each providing eight cores for a total of sixteen threads. It ships with 256 GB of DDR4 registered ECC memory across twenty-four slots and includes a PERC H730P controller with battery backup. Dual 1100 W platinum power supplies and iDRAC9 Enterprise remote management complete the base configuration.

Storage-dense workloads

This platform suits organisations deploying software-defined storage, virtual desktop infrastructure or general virtualisation where internal drive count matters. The twenty-four 2.5-inch bays and 12 Gb/s SAS/SATA controller support large RAID sets, while the quad-port network daughter card adds two 10 Gb SFP+ links. Buyers needing GPU compute density or single-thread frequency above 3.0 GHz turbo should evaluate other form factors.

24-bay 2.5-inch chassis

The defining specification is the twenty-four-bay 2.5-inch drive cage in a 2U height, which sets the maximum number of hot-swap drives this server can hold. Combined with the H730P controller supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60, it determines whether the system meets a project's raw capacity and redundancy requirements.