DELL PowerEdge R640 1U rack server 2× Xeon Gold 5118 2.3 GHz 12-core 512 GB DDR4 8× 800 GB SSD H730P

Dense 1U compute node

The Dell PowerEdge R640 is a dual-socket 1U rack server built for scale-out workloads. Two Intel Xeon Gold 5118 processors at 2.3 GHz with 12 cores each provide 24 threads of processing capacity. 512 GB of DDR4 ECC memory fills 16 of 24 slots and runs at 2400 MHz. Eight 800 GB SATA SSDs connect through a PERC H730P RAID controller with 2 GB cache.

Suited for virtualization clusters.

This configuration fits virtualization hosts, container platforms and database clusters that benefit from high core counts and redundant 750 W power supplies in a single rack unit. Quad-port networking with two 1 GbE and two 10 Gb SFP+ links supports distributed storage traffic. Buyers who require GPU acceleration, more than two processors or storage interfaces beyond SATA and SAS should look at other platforms because this chassis does not support those configurations.

PERC H730P RAID controller decides storage topology

The installed PERC H730P with 2 GB battery-backed cache manages all eight drive bays and supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 plus pass-through mode. This single controller determines which RAID levels are available, whether write-back caching is protected and how many logical volumes can be presented to the operating system.