DELL PowerEdge R540 12LFF 2x Xeon Silver 4210 768GB DDR4 No Drive rack server

Capacity and processors

The Dell PowerEdge R540 is a 2U rack server that holds up to twelve 3.5-inch drives and ships with two Xeon Silver 4210 processors running at 2.2GHz, each providing ten cores and 13.75MB cache. It includes 768GB of DDR4 ECC registered memory and a PERC H740P RAID controller, with dual 550W power supplies and an iDRAC9 Express licence for remote management. No drives are installed, so storage must be added separately.

Suitable workloads and limits

This configuration suits environments that need dense SATA storage capacity and a large memory pool for virtualisation, database or file-serving roles, and it can be customised before dispatch. Buyers who need more than two sockets, memory beyond 1TB, or drive bays beyond twelve 3.5-inch slots should look elsewhere, as the chassis and processor sockets are fixed at these limits. The integrated graphics and single 1GbE two-port adapter also rule out GPU-accelerated or high-throughput networking demands.

Deciding specification

The twelve 3.5-inch drive bays with SATA interface and PERC H740P RAID controller are the single specification that determines whether this server fits the intended storage architecture.