DELL PowerEdge R640 4LFF 2x Xeon Bronze 3104 1.7GHz 128GB DDR4 No Drive rack server

Configuration and purpose

This Dell PowerEdge R640 rack server arrives with two Xeon Bronze 3104 processors at 1.7GHz and 128GB of DDR4 ECC registered memory. The 4LFF chassis supports up to four 3.5-inch SATA drives managed by a PERC H740P RAID controller. Remote administration is handled through iDRAC9 with an Enterprise licence, and a dual-port 10GbE 562T adapter provides network connectivity. It is aimed at organisations that need a dense 1U platform for virtualisation, database or file-serving workloads.

Who it suits and who should look elsewhere

The dual-socket design and large memory ceiling of 7.68TB suit businesses running memory-hungry applications or multiple virtual machines. Buyers who need more than two processor sockets, integrated GPU compute or drive bays beyond the four 3.5-inch slots should evaluate other platforms. The server ships without storage drives, so teams that require pre-populated arrays must add them separately.

Deciding specification

The installed memory is 128GB of DDR4 ECC registered DIMMs, and the platform can scale to 7.68TB when fully populated. This single figure determines whether the system can hold the working set of your target workload without immediate upgrades.