DELL PowerEdge R740 2U Rack Server 2x Gold 6142 16C 128GB 6x 2TB 7.2K SAS H740P

Dell PowerEdge R740 2U Server

The Dell PowerEdge R740 is a 2U rack server built for dense virtualization and database workloads. It ships with dual Intel Gold 6142 processors, each offering 16 cores, and 128GB of DDR4 memory. Six 2TB 7.2K NL SAS drives connect to an H740P RAID controller. iDRAC9 Enterprise provides remote management.

Suits compute-heavy clusters.

This configuration targets buyers who need high core counts and large memory capacity for hypervisor hosts or in-memory databases. The 7.2K NL SAS drives deliver capacity rather than low latency, so workloads demanding sustained random write performance should look elsewhere. PCIe Gen 3 slots support current add-in cards but limit future 25 Gb networking upgrades. The 2.5-inch bay count caps internal drive expansion at eight devices.

Dual Gold 6142 16-core CPUs decide fit

The pair of 16-core Gold 6142 processors defines the server’s throughput ceiling for parallel workloads. With 32 total cores and 128GB DDR4, the platform balances vCPU-to-RAM ratios for typical virtualization densities. If your licensing model charges per core or your code scales poorly beyond 16 threads per socket, a lower-core alternative reduces cost. Conversely, memory-bound tasks may exhaust the 128GB limit before CPU saturation.