DELL PowerEdge R740xd 24SFF 2x Xeon Gold 6226R 128GB DDR4 No Drive rack server

Dell PowerEdge R740xd 24SFF dual Xeon server

This 2U rack system ships with two Intel Xeon Gold 6226R processors at 2.9 GHz, each with 16 cores and 22 MB cache, plus 128 GB of DDR4 ECC registered memory. It supports up to 24 hot-plug 2.5-inch SAS drives and includes a PERC H730P hardware RAID controller for array management. Remote administration is handled by iDRAC9 Enterprise, and dual 1100 W power supplies provide redundancy.

Suits storage-heavy workloads.

This platform targets databases, virtualisation clusters and backup repositories that benefit from high drive count and hardware RAID. Organisations needing GPU acceleration for AI training or rendering should look at configurations with dedicated accelerator support. The integrated graphics only cover basic console output and management tasks. Buyers who require installed operating-system drives must add them separately.

24-bay 2.5-inch SAS chassis with PERC H730P RAID

The single specification that decides fit is the 24-bay 2.5-inch SAS backplane paired with the PERC H730P controller. It determines how many drives you can install, which drive interface is supported and what RAID levels are available in hardware. Memory can scale to 3 TB across DDR4 slots, and the two-socket limit is fixed at two Xeon Gold 6226R CPUs. Network connectivity includes a 10 GbE two-port 562T adapter.