DELL PowerEdge T440 16 Bay 2.5" 5U Server 2x Xeon Gold 5120 2.2GHz 14 Core 64GB DDR4 HBA330 2x 750W

Dell PowerEdge T440 16-Bay Server

The Dell PowerEdge T440 is a 5U tower server designed for enterprise workloads such as virtualisation, database hosting and software-defined storage. It ships with two Intel Xeon Gold 5120 processors, each running at 2.2 GHz with a 3.2 GHz turbo frequency and 14 cores, plus 64 GB of DDR4-2400 ECC registered memory. A PERC HBA330 controller and sixteen 2.5-inch hot-swap drive trays provide flexible SAS and SATA storage capacity.

Suits virtualisation hosts and storage-heavy roles

This configuration suits IT teams building VMware ESXi, Hyper-V or Proxmox VE clusters that need dense 2.5-inch drive bays and redundant 750 W platinum power supplies. It is less suited for buyers who require a rackmount form factor without purchasing a separate conversion kit, or for deployments that need GPU compute density beyond the available PCIe expansion slots.

16-bay 2.5-inch drive capacity decides fit

The single specification that determines whether this server matches a project is the sixteen 2.5-inch hot-swap bays backed by the HBA330 controller. If the workload demands that many SAS or SATA drives in a 5U tower chassis, this unit fits; if fewer bays or a different drive form factor are needed, another platform should be considered.