DELL PowerEdge R740xd 12 Bay 3.5" 2U 2x Xeon Gold 6142 2.6GHz 16 Core 768GB DDR4 12x 8TB HDD H730P rack server

Capacity and form factor

The Dell PowerEdge R740xd is a 2U rack server with twelve 3.5-inch drive bays. It ships with two Intel Xeon Gold 6142 processors running at 2.6 GHz, each providing sixteen cores. The system includes 768 GB of DDR4 registered ECC memory across twenty-four slots and a PERC H730P controller with battery backup. Twelve 8 TB enterprise SATA hard drives are installed, delivering high-capacity storage in a compact chassis.

Ideal for dense storage workloads

This configuration suits organisations deploying software-defined storage, virtual desktop infrastructure or backup repositories that benefit from twelve large SATA spindles and dual-processor compute. The quad-port network daughter card adds two 1 GbE and two 10 Gb SFP+ connections for flexible fabric integration. Buyers who require all-flash performance, protocol support beyond SATA and SAS or GPU-accelerated compute should evaluate alternative platforms because this unit uses only mechanical hard drives and has no GPU provisioning.

Storage controller and drive interface

The PERC H730P 2 GB controller manages the twelve SATA drives and supports RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 plus pass-through mode. This single component determines both the maximum number of drives the server can address and the data-protection schemes available, making it the decisive specification for any storage-centric deployment.