DELL PowerEdge R740xd2 2U 26x 3.5" 2x Xeon Platinum 8160 2.1GHz 24C 256GB DDR4 26x 4TB HBA330 iDRAC9 2x 1100W

High-density 2U storage server

The Dell PowerEdge R740xd2 packs twenty-six 3.5-inch drive bays into a 2U rack footprint. Dual Intel Xeon Platinum 8160 processors provide forty-eight total cores running at 2.1 GHz with 3.7 GHz turbo. Two hundred fifty-six gigabytes of DDR4 ECC memory support data-intensive applications that demand both capacity and compute in a single chassis.

Upgrade from smaller arrays or older platforms

Replaces multi-server JBOD clusters or earlier 12-bay and 16-bay systems when storage growth outpaces rack space. The jump is worth it when workloads need twenty-six drives behind one management plane and the HBA330 controller can present raw capacity to software-defined storage layers without a hardware RAID abstraction layer.

Handles large sequential workloads comfortably

Twenty-six 4 TB 7.2K SATA drives deliver over one hundred terabytes of raw capacity for backup repositories, media archives and analytics staging. The dual 1100 W platinum supplies and iDRAC 9 Enterprise keep the platform running during drive rebuilds. Random IOPS-heavy databases and latency-sensitive transactional workloads will saturate the mechanical drives before the CPU or memory headroom is exhausted.