DELL PowerEdge R740xd 24SFF Xeon Gold 6134 3.2GHz 256GB DDR4 No Drive

24-bay 2.5-inch chassis

The Dell PowerEdge R740xd is a 2U rack-mount server built for storage-dense workloads. It ships with a single Intel Xeon Gold 6134 processor running at 3.2 GHz and 256 GB of DDR4 ECC registered memory. The chassis supports up to twenty-four 2.5-inch SATA drives, though no drives are installed. A PERC H730P RAID controller and dual 1100 W power supplies are included.

Suits dense storage clusters; not for GPU compute

This configuration fits buyers who need high drive-count capacity in a compact rack footprint for databases, virtualisation hosts or software-defined storage. The single CPU and lack of discrete GPU make it unsuitable for workloads that require heavy parallel processing or multiple graphics accelerators. Organisations needing twin processors from day one should evaluate other platforms.

24-drive bay limit defines capacity ceiling

The defining constraint is the twenty-four 2.5-inch bay maximum, which caps raw storage at the number of drives you can physically install. With no drives shipped, total usable capacity depends entirely on the SATA drives you add and the RAID level chosen on the PERC H730P controller.