DELL R740 2x Silver 4210R 10C 32GB 4x 1.92TB SAS SSD H730P rack server

Dell PowerEdge R740 1U rack server

This Dell PowerEdge R740 is a 1U rack server built for compute density. It carries two Intel Silver 4210R processors, each with 10 cores at 2.4 GHz and 13.75 MB cache. Memory is 32 GB DDR4 in two 16 GB modules at 2666 MT/s. Storage uses four 1.92 TB SAS RI SSDs behind an H730P RAID controller. The chassis supports up to eight 2.5 inch drive bays and includes redundant 1100 W power supplies.

Suits virtualisation and database workloads

The dual 10-core CPUs and 32 GB DDR4 handle moderate virtualisation clusters and transactional databases. The H730P controller and SAS SSDs give consistent IOPS for mixed read-write patterns. Buyers who need more memory capacity or more drive bays than the eight 2.5 inch slots provide should look at larger chassis options. Workloads that require GPU acceleration cannot be supported because the specification lists no GPU.

Eight 2.5 inch drive bays limit raw capacity

The chassis maximum of eight 2.5 inch bays sets the hard ceiling for internal storage expansion. With four bays already populated by 1.92 TB SAS SSDs, only four slots remain for additional drives. If the deployment requires more than eight drives or larger 3.5 inch form-factor disks, this 1U model cannot meet the requirement.