DELL PowerEdge R740xd 12LFF 2x Xeon Silver 4110 128GB DDR4 rack server

Dense 3.5-inch storage server

The Dell PowerEdge R740xd chassis holds twelve 3.5-inch drive bays and ships with two Xeon Silver 4110 processors at 2.1GHz plus 128GB of DDR4 ECC registered memory. A PERC H730P RAID controller and a 10GbE two-port 562T adapter are installed, while iDRAC9 Enterprise provides full remote management. Dual 1100W power supplies complete the baseline configuration.

Suits storage-heavy workloads

This platform fits organisations that need high local capacity in a 2U rack footprint — think backup targets, media archives or software-defined storage clusters. Buyers who require GPU acceleration or a smaller tower form factor should evaluate other platforms that match those specific requirements. The twelve-bay limit also means environments planning larger single-volume arrays must look beyond this chassis.

Twelve 3.5-inch bays define capacity

The maximum number of 3.5-inch drives the chassis can accept is the single figure that determines whether the server meets a given storage plan. With twelve bays populated by large-capacity SATA drives, raw capacity scales linearly; fewer bays would restrict total terabytes, while a 2.5-inch chassis would change drive economics entirely.