DELL PowerEdge R740xd 24SFF 2x Xeon Platinum 8268 512GB DDR4

Rack server with 24 small-form-factor bays

The Dell PowerEdge R740xd is a 2U rack-mount server that supports up to twenty-four 2.5-inch drive bays. It ships with two Xeon Platinum 8268 processors running at 2.9 GHz and 512 GB of DDR4 ECC registered memory. A PERC H730P RAID controller and dual 1100 W power supplies are installed, while iDRAC9 Enterprise provides remote management.

Suited for capacity-focused workloads.

This system suits organisations that need high drive-count shared storage, backup targets or software-defined storage nodes in a standard rack. Integrated graphics and the absence of installed drives mean it does not serve workloads that require dedicated GPU acceleration. Buyers who need GPU compute should look at a different platform.

24-bay 2.5-inch chassis dictates storage density

The defining specification is the twenty-four-bay 2.5-inch chassis, which sets the maximum number of drives the server can hold. With no drives included, the buyer must populate the bays with SATA drives supported by the PERC H730P controller to reach the desired capacity.