DELL PowerEdge R740xd 2U rack server 2x Xeon Silver 4116 2.1GHz 12-core 64GB DDR4 12x 4TB HDD H730P

Storage-dense 2U server

The Dell PowerEdge R740xd is a 2U rack server built around twelve 3.5-inch drive bays. Dual Xeon Silver 4116 processors provide twenty-four cores at 2.1 GHz with 3.0 GHz turbo. Sixty-four gigabytes of DDR4 registered ECC memory and a PERC H730P controller with battery-backed cache support RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60. Dual 750 watt platinum power supplies and iDRAC9 Enterprise complete the platform.

Suits storage-first workloads.

This configuration targets software-defined storage, backup repositories and virtual desktop infrastructure where raw capacity and redundancy matter. The twelve 4 TB 7.2K SATA drives deliver forty-eight terabytes of spinning media. Quad-port networking with dual 10 Gb SFP+ and dual 1 GbE ports handles replication traffic. Buyers who need all-flash performance tiers or GPU compute density should look at alternative platforms.

Twelve-bay 3.5-inch chassis dictates capacity

The defining specification is the twelve-bay 3.5-inch chassis paired with SATA and SAS support on the H730P controller. It sets the maximum number of spinning drives and the RAID topology available without adding external enclosures. Memory scales to 3 TB across twenty-four DDR4 slots and the LGA 3647 sockets accept a second processor if only one is populated.