DELL PowerEdge R740 8LFF 2x Xeon Gold 6138 768GB DDR4 No Drive rack server

PowerEdge R740 8LFF rack server

The Dell PowerEdge R740 is a 2U rack-mounted server system built for data-centre workloads. It ships with two Intel Xeon Gold 6138 processors running at 2.0 GHz, providing 20 cores each and 27.5 MB cache per CPU. The system includes 768 GB of DDR4 ECC registered memory and a PERC H730P RAID controller. No drives are installed in the eight 3.5-inch SATA bays.

Suits compute-heavy roles

This configuration fits virtualisation hosts, database nodes, and batch-processing clusters that need dual-socket performance and up to 3 TB maximum memory capacity. The integrated graphics and iDRAC9 Enterprise licence support remote management without a dedicated GPU. Buyers who need more than two processor sockets, discrete GPU acceleration, or storage interfaces other than SATA should consider a different platform.

Eight 3.5-inch SATA drive bays define storage

The chassis provides eight large-form-factor bays connected to the PERC H730P controller through SATA interfaces. Drive selection and RAID topology are left entirely to the buyer, so total capacity and performance scale with the disks chosen. The 750 W redundant power supplies and 10 GbE dual-port adapter are already installed.