DELL PowerEdge R740 8LFF 2x Xeon 5118 768GB DDR4

Dell PowerEdge R740 8LFF dual Xeon 5118

The Dell PowerEdge R740 is a 2U rack-mount server system equipped with two Intel Xeon 5118 processors running at 2.3 GHz. It ships with 768 GB of DDR4 ECC registered memory and a PERC H730P RAID controller. The chassis provides eight 3.5-inch drive bays with SATA interface, and remote management is handled by iDRAC9 with an Enterprise licence.

Suits memory-heavy workloads

Organisations running large in-memory databases, dense virtual-machine clusters or high-thread-count applications will benefit from the 768 GB DDR4 capacity and 24 total cores. Buyers who need more than eight 3.5-inch drive bays, faster storage protocols than SATA, or dedicated GPU compute density should look elsewhere, as the chassis does not support those expansions.

Eight 3.5-inch SATA drive bays define storage limits

The single specification that decides fit is the eight-bay 3.5-inch SATA backplane; it sets the maximum number of spinning drives and the interface speed available without adding external enclosures or a different chassis.