DELL XE7100 5U rack server 2x XE7420 Silver 4210 2.2GHz 10C 256GB DDR4 25x 16TB SATA

Dense 5U storage server

The Dell PowerEdge XE7100 is a 5U rack chassis populated with two XE7420 compute nodes, each driven by an Intel Silver 4210 2.2GHz 10C processor. The system ships with 256GB DDR4 memory across sixteen 16GB modules and twenty-five 16TB 7.2K SATA drives managed by dual H745 RAID controllers. Redundant 2400W power supplies and iDRAC9 Enterprise remote management complete the platform.

Archive and cold-data workloads

This server suits organisations that need maximum 3.5-inch drive density in a single rack unit for sequential read workloads such as backup targets, media archives or object storage. Buyers who require lower latency for transactional databases or higher core counts for virtualisation should evaluate other configurations.

One hundred 3.5-inch bays

The chassis provides one hundred 3.5-inch drive bays, of which twenty-five are populated with 16TB SATA drives and four 960GB SATA SSDs serve as node boot storage. This raw bay count is the single figure that determines whether the platform can absorb future capacity growth without additional rack space.