DELL PowerEdge R540 rack server 2x Xeon Gold 6130 2.1GHz 64GB DDR4 H330 8-bay 3.5" 2U

Dell PowerEdge R540 2U rack server

The Dell PowerEdge R540 is a 2U rack server built for virtualization, database hosting and file serving. It ships with two Intel Xeon Gold 6130 processors running at 2.1 GHz with 16 cores each and 64 GB of DDR4 2666 MHz ECC memory. A PERC H330 controller provides RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and 50 plus pass-through for SAS and SATA drives. Eight 3.5-inch hot-swap trays, dual 1 GbE ports, iDRAC9 Enterprise and redundant 750 W platinum power supplies complete the platform.

Suited for storage-dense workloads

This server suits teams that need up to eight 3.5-inch SAS or SATA drives in a 2U form factor with dual-socket compute. The H330 controller and 16 DIMM slots supporting up to 1 TB of DDR4 give room to grow memory and RAID capacity. Buyers who need direct-attached PCIe flash tiers, GPU compute density or a smaller 1U footprint should evaluate other platforms.

Eight 3.5-inch SAS/SATA drive bays

The chassis provides eight 3.5-inch hot-swap trays wired to the PERC H330 controller for SATA and SAS hard drives or SSDs. No drives are included, so the buyer selects capacity and drive type to match the workload. This bay count and interface mix is the primary constraint when planning storage layout.