DELL PowerEdge R740 2U Rack Server 2x Xeon Gold 6148 2.4GHz 20-Core 128GB DDR4 8x 1.2TB SAS

Dual Xeon Gold 6148 2U Server

This Dell PowerEdge R740 is a 2U rack server equipped with two Intel Xeon Gold 6148 processors, each running at 2.40 GHz with 20 cores. It includes 128 GB of DDR4 registered ECC memory across eight 16 GB modules and eight 1.2 TB 10K SAS hard drives managed by a PERC H730P RAID controller with 2 GB cache. Dual 750 W redundant power supplies and iDRAC 9 Enterprise remote management come standard.

Virtualisation and database workloads

The dual 20-core CPUs and 128 GB of DDR4 suit virtualisation hosts, database servers and compute-heavy applications that benefit from high core counts and redundant power. Buyers needing more than 3 TB of memory or more than twenty-four DIMM slots should look elsewhere. The eight 2.5-inch drive bays limit internal storage to the installed SAS drives unless external enclosures are added.

3 TB maximum DDR4 capacity

The Intel C620 chipset supports up to 3 TB of DDR4 registered ECC memory across twenty-four slots, so the installed 128 GB leaves ample room for future expansion. This ceiling is the decisive figure when planning memory-heavy workloads on this platform.