DELL PowerEdge R740 2U Rack Server Dual Xeon Gold 6130 2.10 GHz 256GB DDR4 32TB SAS

Dell PowerEdge R740 2U rack server

This Dell PowerEdge R740 2U rack server arrives with a rail kit and dual Xeon Gold 6130 processors, each with 16 cores at 2.10 GHz and a 3.70 GHz turbo ceiling. It is configured with 256GB of DDR4 memory across eight 32GB modules running at 3200MHz and 32TB of enterprise nearline SAS storage on four 8TB 3.5-inch drives spinning at 7.2K RPM. The system targets organisations that need dense virtualisation, private-cloud or high-performance compute capacity in a standard 2U form factor.

SAS 12Gb/s interface and PERC H730 RAID controller

Storage connects through a 12Gb/s SAS interface managed by a PERC H730 RAID controller with 2GB of non-volatile cache. The four 3.5-inch nearline SAS drives deliver 32TB total capacity at 7.2K RPM, a speed tier optimised for capacity-intensive workloads rather than low-latency transaction processing. The controller supports RAID levels suited to redundancy and throughput, but the 12Gb/s link and 7.2K spindle speed set a practical ceiling on random IOPS that buyers should match to their application profile.

Dual Xeon Gold 6130 16-core processors

The server is built around two Xeon Gold 6130 CPUs, each providing 16 cores at 2.10 GHz with a 3.70 GHz maximum turbo frequency and 22MB of cache per socket. This 32-core total defines the parallel compute envelope for virtualisation, container density and high-performance computing tasks. Workloads that scale beyond 32 cores or require higher single-thread frequencies will need a different processor configuration, while lighter tasks may not utilise the available headroom.