DELL PowerEdge R740 2x Silver 4210R 10C 128GB 6x 300GB SAS H730P rack server

Dell PowerEdge R740 2U rack server

This Dell PowerEdge R740 is a 2U rack server built for virtualisation and database workloads. Dual Intel Silver 4210R processors provide twenty cores at 2.4 GHz with 13.75 MB cache each. Memory totals 128 GB of DDR4 across eight 16 GB PC4-2666 modules. The H730P RAID controller manages six 300 GB 10K SAS drives in an eight-bay 2.5 inch chassis.

Suited for VM clusters and mixed workloads

IT teams running hypervisor clusters, mid-size databases or file and print services will find the core count, memory capacity and 10 Gb Ethernet a good fit. Buyers needing higher single-thread frequency, larger local storage pools or GPU-accelerated compute should evaluate other platforms. The eight PCIe Gen 3 slots support additional network or storage adapters, while iDRAC9 Enterprise simplifies remote lifecycle management.

Dual Silver 4210R 10-core CPUs decide fit

The two 10-core Silver 4210R processors set the thread ceiling for every workload on this box. If the target application scales across twenty threads and fits within 128 GB RAM, the server delivers; if the workload demands more cores per socket or faster per-core speed, a different processor configuration is required.