DELL PowerEdge R740 2U 2x Silver 4210R 10C 32GB 6x 1.2TB SAS H730P

Dual Silver 4210R 2U Server

The Dell EMC PowerEdge R740 is a 2U rack server equipped with two Intel Silver 4210R processors, each running at 2.4GHz with 10 cores. It ships with 32GB of DDR4 memory configured as two 16GB PC4-2666 modules and six 1.2TB 10K SAS drives managed by an H730P RAID controller. The chassis provides eight 2.5-inch drive bays, up to eight PCIe Gen 3 slots, and dual 1100W redundant power supplies. Remote management is handled by iDRAC9 Enterprise.

Suited for virtualisation hosts and database nodes

This configuration suits teams deploying virtualisation clusters or database workloads that benefit from dual 10-core CPUs and fast SAS storage. The six pre-installed drives and H730P controller deliver immediate RAID capacity for mixed read-write workloads. Organisations requiring higher core counts per socket, larger memory footprints from day one, or direct-attached GPU compute should evaluate alternative platforms because the current CPU and memory configuration fixes those limits.

H730P RAID controller with six SAS drives

The H730P controller paired with six 1.2TB 10K SAS drives determines the storage performance and redundancy available immediately. This combination sets the baseline IOPS and usable capacity before any drive-bay expansion. Verify that the RAID levels and throughput supported by the H730P match the application requirements before deployment.