DELL PowerEdge R740xd 12LFF 2x Xeon Gold 5218R 128GB DDR4 No Drive Server

12-Bay Rack Server for High-Capacity Storage

The Dell PowerEdge R740xd is a 2U rack-mount server built around twelve 3.5-inch drive bays and dual Intel Xeon Gold 5218R processors. Each CPU runs at 2.1 GHz with twenty cores, delivering forty cores total for multi-threaded workloads. The system ships with 128 GB of DDR4 ECC registered memory and a PERC H730P RAID controller. No drives are installed, so buyers populate the bays with SATA hard drives to match capacity and budget requirements.

Suited for Storage-Dense Workloads.

This chassis targets organisations that need large raw capacity in a compact rack footprint, such as backup repositories, archive libraries or software-defined storage clusters. The SATA interface and twelve 3.5-inch bays favour high-capacity hard drives over solid-state media. Buyers who require all-flash arrays, direct-attached GPU compute or more than two processor sockets should evaluate alternative platforms because the hardware does not support those configurations.

Dual Xeon Gold 5218R CPUs Define the Compute Ceiling

The installed processors set the performance boundary: two 20-core Xeon Gold 5218R chips at 2.1 GHz with 27.5 MB cache each. Memory can scale to 3 TB of DDR4 across the available slots, but the CPU complex is fixed at two sockets with no upgrade path to newer generations. Confirm that your licensing, threading model and instruction-set needs align with this specific processor before committing to the platform.