DELL PowerEdge R740 2U rack server 2x Silver 4210R 10C 32GB 6x 300GB 10K SAS H730P

2U Rack Server with Dual Silver 4210R

The Dell EMC PowerEdge R740 is a 2U rack server fitted with two Intel Silver 4210R processors, each running at 2.4 GHz with ten cores. It ships with 32 GB of DDR4 memory in a two-module configuration and six 300 GB 10K SAS drives managed by an H730P RAID controller. The chassis provides eight 2.5-inch drive bays and up to eight PCIe Gen 3 expansion slots for additional cards.

Suits virtualisation hosts needing 10 GbE and SAS

This server suits teams running virtualised workloads that benefit from twenty total cores, redundant 1100 W power supplies and integrated 10 GbE plus 1 GbE networking. Buyers who need more than eight 2.5-inch drive bays or who require an optical drive should look elsewhere, as the chassis maxes out at eight bays and ships without an optical device.

Eight 2.5-inch bay limit defines storage ceiling

The single specification that decides fit is the eight-bay 2.5-inch chassis, which caps internal drive count regardless of RAID level or capacity per drive. With six bays already populated by 300 GB 10K SAS units, only two bays remain for expansion before external storage or a different platform becomes necessary.