DELL PowerEdge R740xd 2U rack server 2x Xeon Gold 5118 2.3GHz 12-core 256GB DDR4 24-bay 2.5" H730P

Storage-dense 2U server

The Dell PowerEdge R740xd fits twenty-four 2.5-inch drive bays into a two-socket 2U chassis, giving software-defined storage clusters and virtual desktop farms room to scale without extra rack units. Dual Xeon Gold 5118 processors supply twenty-four cores at 2.3 GHz with 3.2 GHz turbo for parallel workloads.

Redundant cooling and platinum power

Two hot-swap 1100 W platinum power supplies share the load so a single failure keeps the system running. The 2U airflow path moves heat across the CPUs, memory and storage controller without needing oversized fans, keeping acoustic output predictable in a dense rack row.

Upgrade from single-socket or smaller arrays

Replacing a single-socket 1U box or a twelve-bay 2U unit adds a second CPU, doubles the memory slots to twenty-four and expands drive capacity to twenty-four bays. The jump makes sense when a workload needs more concurrent threads, larger ECC memory pools or more local spindles than a single-socket platform can hold.