DELL PowerEdge R440 1U rack server 2x Xeon Silver 4114 2.2GHz 10-core 128GB DDR4 H730P 8x 1.8TB SAS

Compact 1U rack server for dense deployments

The Dell PowerEdge R440 is a 1U rackmount server built for data-centre environments where rack density matters. It ships with two Intel Xeon Silver 4114 processors, each running at 2.2 GHz with 10 cores and a 3.0 GHz turbo frequency. Memory capacity is 128 GB of DDR4-2400 ECC registered DIMMs across eight 16 GB modules. The PERC H730P controller with 2 GB cache manages eight 1.8 TB 10K SAS drives in the front 2.5-inch bays. Dual 550 W platinum power supplies and iDRAC 9 Express remote management complete the configuration.

Suits virtualisation hosts

This server fits organisations running virtualised infrastructure, database instances, or application hosting that benefit from dual-socket compute and local SAS storage. The eight drive bays and hardware RAID support RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60, giving flexibility for capacity or redundancy. Buyers needing GPU compute, more than two processors, or fibre-channel connectivity should evaluate other platforms. The included dual-port gigabit Ethernet covers basic networking; additional NICs would require the PCIe slot.

Eight 1.8 TB SAS drives set the storage baseline

The defining specification is the factory-populated set of eight 1.8 TB 10 000 rpm SAS hard drives delivering 12 Gb/s throughput to the H730P controller. This determines total raw capacity, IOPS ceiling and the RAID layouts you can deploy without buying extra drives. If your workload demands more raw space or all-flash performance, the drive count and media type are the limiting factors to plan around.