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Silver 2U rack server front with twelve 3.5 inch drive bays

DELL

DELL PowerEdge R540 12 Bay 3.5" 2U Rack Server 2x Xeon Silver 4114 2.2GHz 10 Core 512GB DDR4 H730P 12x 8TB HDD

SKU CH-0RKD-N2TGB

A 2U rack server with dual 10-core Xeon Silver 4114 processors at 2.2 GHz, 512 GB DDR4, a PERC H730P controller, and twelve 8 TB 3.5-inch 7.2 K SATA drives

  • Dual Xeon Silver 4114 processors deliver 10 cores each at 2.2GHz
  • 512GB DDR4-2400 ECC memory across 16 modules ensures data integrity
  • PERC H730P controller supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60
  • 12x 8TB 7.2K SATA drives provide high-capacity 3.5" storage
  • Dual 750W platinum power supplies with iDRAC9 Express remote management

Built for storage-heavy workloads

The Dell PowerEdge R540 is a 2U rack server equipped with twelve 3.5-inch drive bays. Dual Xeon Silver 4114 processors deliver twenty total cores at 2.2 GHz with 3.0 GHz turbo capability. The system includes 512 GB of DDR4-2400 ECC memory across sixteen 32 GB modules and a PERC H730P controller with 2 GB cache supporting RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60.

Suited for virtualisation and database clusters

This configuration targets organisations running virtualised environments, software-defined storage or business-critical databases that benefit from high core counts and large memory capacity. The twelve-bay chassis filled with 8 TB 7.2K SATA drives provides raw capacity for bulk data workloads. Buyers needing solid-state speed, GPU compute density, or a form factor smaller than 2U will not find those attributes here.

Twelve 8 TB drives decide the storage profile

The defining specification is the populated drive set: twelve enterprise 8 TB 3.5-inch SATA hard drives spinning at 7.2K rpm behind a 12 Gb/s SAS/SATA RAID controller. That combination fixes the usable capacity, IOPS ceiling and cost-per-gigabyte for the platform. If the workload demands lower latency or higher throughput per drive, this drive population is the limiting factor.

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Questions about this item

How do I confirm the two Xeon Silver 4114 processors are running at 2.2 GHz base and 3.0 GHz turbo after installation?

Use iDRAC 9 Express to view real-time CPU frequency and health status, or enter the BIOS during boot to verify both 10-core processors report 2.2 GHz base and 3.0 GHz turbo speeds.

The listing says front bezel and ready rails are not included — what exactly ships in the box and what must I source separately?

The server ships with 2x Xeon Silver 4114 CPUs, 16x 32 GB DDR4-2400 ECC RDIMMs totalling 512 GB, PERC H730P 2 GB controller, 12x 8 TB 7.2K SATA 3.5" drives, dual 1 GbE ports, iDRAC 9 Express, and 2x 750 W platinum PSUs; you must purchase rack rails and front bezel separately.

All 12 drive bays are already filled with 8 TB HDDs — if I need more capacity later, which drives can I add and how?

The 12 bays are fully populated with 8 TB 7.2K SATA 3.5" drives; to increase capacity you must replace existing drives with larger 3.5" SAS or SATA HDDs or SSDs supported by the PERC H730P controller, as no empty bays remain.

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