DELL PowerEdge R740 2U 8 Bay 2x Xeon Gold 6148 2.4GHz 20 Core 768GB DDR4 H730P 2x 400GB SSD

Dual 20-core Xeon 2U server

This Dell PowerEdge R740 is a 2U rack server fitted with two Intel Xeon Gold 6148 processors running at 2.4 GHz with a 3.7 GHz turbo frequency. Each CPU provides 20 cores, giving 40 cores total for heavily threaded workloads. The system ships with 768 GB of DDR4 2666 MHz registered ECC memory across 24 slots and includes a PERC H730P 2 GB RAID controller.

Suits virtualisation hosts needing core density

The 40 cores and large memory capacity make this platform suitable for virtualisation clusters, database nodes or compute-intensive batch processing. iDRAC 9 Enterprise provides full out-of-band management. Buyers who require GPU acceleration should evaluate other platforms. The 2.5-inch bay count and SATA SSD complement limit raw storage capacity for cold-data archives.

PERC H730P controller with 2 GB cache

The installed Dell PERC H730P 2 GB controller supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 plus pass-through mode. It connects to the two 400 GB SATA SSDs and any additional SATA or SAS drives populated in the eight 2.5-inch bays. The 12 Gb/s SAS/SATA interface determines the maximum drive throughput available on this chassis.