DELL PowerEdge R740 2U rack server 2x Xeon Gold 5118 2.3GHz 12C 256GB DDR4 8x 1.2TB SAS H730P

Purpose-built 2U rack server

This Dell PowerEdge R740 is a dual-socket 2U rack server equipped with two Intel Xeon Gold 5118 processors running at 2.3 GHz with 12 cores each. It ships with 256 GB of DDR4 registered ECC memory across eight 32 GB modules. The system includes a PERC H730P storage controller with battery backup and eight 1.2 TB 10K SAS hard drives. Dual 750 W platinum power supplies and iDRAC 9 Enterprise provide redundancy and remote management.

Suited for dense virtualisation

Organisations running memory-intensive virtual machines, database clusters or high-throughput transactional applications will benefit from the 24 DIMM slots supporting up to 3 TB of DDR4. The quad-port network daughter card delivers two 1 GbE and two 10 Gb SFP+ connections for flexible fabric integration. Buyers who need solid-state storage, more than two processor sockets or a tower form factor should consider alternative platforms.

SAS drive count and controller RAID breadth

Eight 2.5-inch SAS bays are populated with 1.2 TB enterprise drives behind a PERC H730P controller that supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 plus pass-through mode. This combination determines usable capacity, redundancy options and I/O performance for the workload. Verify that the SAS interface and RAID level match the application requirements before deployment.