DELL PowerEdge M640 Blade Server 2x Xeon 8160 24C 16GB 2x 960GB SSD 57810S-K iDRAC9 Ent

Blade Server for Dense Compute

The Dell PowerEdge M640 is a half-height blade server built for high-density data centre deployments. It ships with two Intel Xeon Platinum 8160 processors, each running at 2.10 GHz with a 3.7 GHz turbo frequency. Sixteen gigabytes of DDR4 registered ECC memory are installed across two modules. The platform fits into PowerEdge MX or M1000e chassis for shared power and cooling.

Suited for Virtualisation and HPC Clusters

This configuration targets organisations running virtualisation, private cloud or high-performance computing workloads that benefit from many cores in a small footprint. The dual 24-core CPUs and 10 Gb dual-port networking support scale-out architectures. Buyers who need large local storage capacity or GPU acceleration should look at alternative platforms because the blade provides only two 2.5-inch drive bays and a Matrox G200 graphics controller with 8 MB video memory.

Storage Controller Determines Drive Options

The integrated Dell PERC S140 controller manages the two installed 960 GB SATA SSDs and supports RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10 across SATA and SAS interfaces. NVMe drives are also supported by the controller for future upgrades. The single specification that decides fit is whether the S140 RAID feature set meets the redundancy and performance requirements of the intended workload.