DELL PowerEdge T440 5U rack server 2x Xeon Gold 5218 2.3GHz 64GB DDR4 H330 4x 1.92TB SATA

Purpose-built 5U server

This Dell PowerEdge T440 is a 5U rack server fitted with two Intel Xeon Gold 5218 processors running at 2.3 GHz with a 3.9 GHz turbo. It ships with 64 GB of DDR4 ECC registered memory across four modules and a PERC H330 storage controller managing four 1.92 TB SATA solid-state drives. The chassis provides sixteen 2.5-inch hot-swap bays, dual gigabit Ethernet ports, iDRAC 9 Express remote management and redundant 750 W platinum power supplies.

Virtualisation hosts and storage-heavy workloads

The dual 16-core CPUs and expandable memory capacity up to 1 TB suit virtualisation platforms such as VMware ESXi, Hyper-V or Proxmox, as well as database hosting, file services and software-defined storage. Buyers who need GPU compute slots, direct-attached storage interfaces beyond SAS or SATA, or single-thread frequencies above 3.9 GHz should look at alternative configurations.

Sixteen 2.5-inch hot-swap drive bays

The defining specification is the sixteen-bay 2.5-inch hot-swap backplane that accepts SAS, SATA and SSD media. This capacity lets the server scale from the four installed 1.92 TB drives to a much larger storage pool without adding external enclosures, making it the decisive factor for storage-centric deployments.