DELL PowerEdge R740xd2 2U 26 Bay 3.5" 2x Xeon Platinum 8160 24C 2.1GHz 128GB DDR4 26x 8TB SATA HBA330

High-Density 2U Storage Server

The Dell PowerEdge R740xd2 is a 2U rack server fitted with twenty-six 3.5-inch drive bays. Dual Intel Xeon Platinum 8160 processors deliver forty-eight cores at 2.1 GHz with a 3.7 GHz turbo frequency. One hundred twenty-eight gigabytes of DDR4 ECC memory and a PERC HBA330 controller support the installed twenty-six 8 TB SATA hard drives. Dual 1100 watt platinum power supplies provide redundant hot-swap power.

Storage-Focused Deployments

This platform suits organisations building software-defined storage clusters, backup repositories or media archives that need maximum spindle count in a 2U form factor. The HBA330 controller presents drives without hardware RAID, so buyers who require integrated RAID levels or GPU compute density should evaluate alternative platforms.

Twenty-Six Bay Capacity

The defining specification is the twenty-six 3.5-inch SATA bays populated with 7.2K RPM enterprise drives, delivering over two hundred terabytes of raw capacity in a single 2U chassis.