We take cryptocurrency — so the coins you hold can buy real hardware.Pay in crypto, spend it on real hardware. Free insured shipping worldwide over $399. Plain, unbranded boxes, sent from Germany.Free insured shipping over $399. Your rate is locked for 30 minutes once checkout opens.Rate locked 30 minutes. Every item sealed, serial-checked and covered by a 24-month warranty.Sealed, 24-month warranty.

Saved items Sign in
Silver 2U rack server with twelve 3.5-inch drive bays and dual power supplies

DELL

DELL PowerEdge R540 2U rack server 2x Xeon Gold 5118 2.3GHz 256GB DDR4 12x 4TB HDD HBA330 iDRAC9 2x 750W PSU

SKU CH-G50H-73DX3

A 2U rack server with dual 12-core Xeon Gold 5118 CPUs at 2.3 GHz, 256 GB DDR4 ECC memory, and twelve 4 TB 7.2 K SATA drives on an HBA330 controller

  • Dual Xeon Gold 5118 CPUs deliver 24 cores at 2.3 GHz with 3.2 GHz Turbo
  • 256 GB DDR4-2400 ECC memory ensures data integrity for critical workloads
  • PERC HBA330 controller manages 12 drive bays with 12 Gb/s SAS/SATA speed
  • Twelve 4 TB 7.2K SATA drives provide high-capacity 3.5-inch enterprise storage
  • Dual 750 W Platinum power supplies with iDRAC9 Express enable resilient remote management

Dell PowerEdge R540 2U Rack Server

The Dell PowerEdge R540 is a 2U rack server built for growing business environments. It ships with two Intel Xeon Gold 5118 processors running at 2.3 GHz with a 3.2 GHz turbo frequency. The system includes 256 GB of DDR4-2400 ECC registered memory across eight 32 GB modules. A PERC HBA330 controller manages twelve 4 TB 3.5-inch SATA hard drives spinning at 7.2K RPM.

Ideal for virtualisation and storage-heavy workloads

This configuration suits organisations that need high-capacity internal storage and dual-socket compute for virtualisation, databases or software-defined storage. The twelve 3.5-inch bays and HBA330 controller provide dense SATA capacity. Buyers who need PCIe-attached flash acceleration, GPU compute density or a 1U chassis should evaluate different platforms.

Storage controller determines drive compatibility

The PERC HBA330 is a 12 Gb/s SAS and SATA host bus adapter without RAID functionality. It presents the twelve 4 TB SATA drives directly to the operating system for software-defined storage or JBOD use. If hardware RAID levels are required, a PERC RAID controller must be sourced separately.

Highlights

  • Dual Xeon Gold 5118 CPUs deliver 24 cores at 2.3 GHz with 3.2 GHz Turbo
  • 256 GB DDR4-2400 ECC memory ensures data integrity for critical workloads
  • PERC HBA330 controller manages 12 drive bays with 12 Gb/s SAS/SATA speed
  • Twelve 4 TB 7.2K SATA drives provide high-capacity 3.5-inch enterprise storage
  • Dual 750 W Platinum power supplies with iDRAC9 Express enable resilient remote management

Specifications

No published specifications for this item yet.

Questions about this item

Should I pick the 12-bay model with 4TB drives or a smaller configuration?

This unit ships with 12 bays populated by 12x 4TB 7.2K SATA drives behind the HBA330 controller; no smaller bay-count variant is described in the listing.

What does the 2.3GHz base clock mean when both Xeon Gold 5118 CPUs are under load?

Each processor runs at 2.3GHz base and can reach 3.2GHz turbo across its 12 cores, so the dual-socket server delivers 24 cores at those frequencies under sustained workloads.

How does the HBA330 12Gb/s SAS/SATA controller limit drive throughput?

The PERC HBA330 provides a 12Gb/s SAS/SATA link, so each 6Gb/s SATA drive is capped by its own 6Gb/s interface rather than the controller.

Also in this aisle

People compared these

Same shelf, same checkout — eight coins and a 30-minute rate lock.