DELL PowerEdge R740 8LFF 2x Xeon Gold 5218R 64GB DDR4 No Drive rack server

Dual 20-core Xeon server for dense storage

The Dell PowerEdge R740 chassis holds eight 3.5-inch drive bays and ships with two Xeon Gold 5218R processors running at 2.1 GHz, each with 20 cores and 27.5 MB cache. Sixty-four gigabytes of DDR4 ECC registered memory are installed, and a PERC H730P RAID controller manages the SATA backplane. Remote administration is handled by iDRAC9 with an Enterprise licence, and dual 750 W power supplies provide redundancy in a 2U rack form factor.

Suits storage-heavy workloads; not for GPU compute

This configuration targets databases, virtualization hosts and backup targets that benefit from high core counts and many large-capacity drives. Buyers who need installed drives, GPU acceleration or a single-socket platform should look elsewhere. The 10 GbE dual-port 562T adapter supports fast network throughput, while the maximum memory ceiling of 3 TB allows future expansion for memory-intensive applications.

Eight 3.5-inch bays define storage capacity

The single specification that decides fit is the eight-bay 3.5-inch chassis, which sets the upper limit for raw capacity and RAID layout. No drives are included, so the buyer must populate the bays with SATA drives matched to the PERC H730P controller. All other specs scale around this storage foundation.