DELL PowerEdge R740xd 2U Rack Server 2x Xeon Gold 6148 2.4GHz 20C 64GB DDR4 24x 400GB SSD H730P

Storage density in 2U

The Dell PowerEdge R740xd is a 2U rack server built for workloads that demand high drive counts in a compact chassis. It ships with two Intel Xeon Gold 6148 processors, each running at 2.4 GHz with 20 cores, and 64 GB of DDR4 2666 MHz registered ECC memory across four slots. The PERC H730P controller manages twenty-four 400 GB SATA SSDs, providing raw flash capacity suited to software-defined storage or virtual desktop infrastructure. Dual 1100 W platinum power supplies and iDRAC9 Enterprise complete the platform.

Suited for dense flash arrays.

This server fits teams deploying all-flash arrays, hyper-converged clusters or VDI hosts that benefit from twenty-four hot-swap 2.5-inch bays in 2U. The quad-port network daughter card supplies two 1 GbE and two 10 Gb SFP+ links for storage and migration traffic. Organisations needing more than twenty-four drives in the same rack height, or requiring a different drive interface than SATA, should evaluate alternative chassis designs.

Twenty-four SATA SSD bays define the storage ceiling

The single specification that decides fit is the twenty-four 2.5-inch SATA drive bays populated with 400 GB enterprise SSDs. This fixes both the maximum device count and the interface to SATA, so capacity expansion stays within that bay limit and protocol. Buyers planning larger raw capacities or a different drive protocol must choose a platform with a different bay layout.