DELL PowerEdge R740 2U Rack Server 2x Xeon Silver 4116 2.1GHz 12-Core 768GB DDR4 8x 800GB SSD H730P

Dual Xeon 2U Server

The Dell PowerEdge R740 is a 2U rack server equipped with two Intel Xeon Silver 4116 processors, each running at 2.1 GHz with 12 cores. It targets organisations that need a dense, two-socket platform for virtualisation, database workloads or high-performance computing clusters where core count and memory capacity matter more than single-thread speed.

Storage Controller And Network Integration

The system includes a Dell PERC H730P 2 GB controller supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 plus pass-through, managing eight 800 GB SATA SSDs in the front 2.5-inch bays. A quad-port Intel X520/I350 daughter card provides two 1 GbE and two 10 Gb SFP+ connections, while iDRAC 9 Enterprise handles remote management without consuming a PCIe slot.

Sustained Load Behaviour

Redundant 750 W platinum power supplies and hot-swap cooling keep the chassis stable during continuous multi-threaded workloads. The 768 GB of DDR4 2400 MHz registered ECC memory, populated across 24 slots, supports large in-memory datasets without paging, and the C620 chipset maintains consistent I/O throughput for storage and networking under prolonged demand.