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Silver 2U rack server chassis with twelve 3.5-inch drive bays front panel

DELL

DELL PowerEdge R740xd 12LFF 2x Xeon Gold 5218R 128GB DDR4 No Drive Server

SKU CH-6KA1-3V6KR

A 12-bay 3.5" rack server with dual 20-core Xeon Gold 5218R CPUs at 2.1 GHz, 128 GB DDR4, PERC H730P RAID and 10 GbE networking, sold without drives

  • ProcessorIntel Xeon
  • Installed RAM128 GB
  • Type of memoryDDR4
  • Processor speed2.1 GHz
  • Installed CPUs2
  • Max supported CPUs2
  • Dual Xeon Gold 5218R CPUs deliver 20 cores each at 2.1 GHz
  • 128 GB DDR4 ECC registered memory supports heavy virtualisation workloads
  • 12 x 3.5" drive bays with PERC H730P RAID controller enable high-capacity storage arrays
  • iDRAC9 Enterprise licence provides full remote management and monitoring
  • Dual 1100 W power supplies and 10 GbE 562T adapter ensure resilient connectivity

12-Bay Rack Server for High-Capacity Storage

The Dell PowerEdge R740xd is a 2U rack-mount server built around twelve 3.5-inch drive bays and dual Intel Xeon Gold 5218R processors. Each CPU runs at 2.1 GHz with twenty cores, delivering forty cores total for multi-threaded workloads. The system ships with 128 GB of DDR4 ECC registered memory and a PERC H730P RAID controller. No drives are installed, so buyers populate the bays with SATA hard drives to match capacity and budget requirements.

Suited for Storage-Dense Workloads.

This chassis targets organisations that need large raw capacity in a compact rack footprint, such as backup repositories, archive libraries or software-defined storage clusters. The SATA interface and twelve 3.5-inch bays favour high-capacity hard drives over solid-state media. Buyers who require all-flash arrays, direct-attached GPU compute or more than two processor sockets should evaluate alternative platforms because the hardware does not support those configurations.

Dual Xeon Gold 5218R CPUs Define the Compute Ceiling

The installed processors set the performance boundary: two 20-core Xeon Gold 5218R chips at 2.1 GHz with 27.5 MB cache each. Memory can scale to 3 TB of DDR4 across the available slots, but the CPU complex is fixed at two sockets with no upgrade path to newer generations. Confirm that your licensing, threading model and instruction-set needs align with this specific processor before committing to the platform.

How it compares

Measured against everything we stock in Rack & Tower Servers, at today’s prices. Recalculated every night.

Price $1,570.99
Cheaper than about 57% of the 17,641 comparable items (median $1,910.99).
Installed RAM 128 GB
Typical for this category: the median of 15,103 items is 128 GB.
Processor speed 2.1 GHz
Lower than about 70% of the 9,950 comparable items (median 2.3 GHz).

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Specifications

Product
Brand nameDELL
Product linePowerEdge
Model nameRack Mount
Product typeRack
Processor
ProcessorIntel Xeon
Processor speed2.1 GHz
Installed CPUs2
Max supported CPUs2
Memory
Installed RAM128 GB
Type of memoryDDR4
Maximum RAM capacity3 TB
Storage
Installed storage48,00
Disk controllerDell PERC H730P Controller
Drive interfaceSATA
Graphics
Graphics chipIntegrated Graphics
Size & build
Product dimensions36 × 24 × 10 in
More details
Management controlleriDRAC9 - Enterprise License

Questions about this item

How do I choose between the 12-bay 3.5-inch chassis and other configurations?

This unit is the 12LFF chassis that holds twelve 3.5-inch drives; other bay counts or 2.5-inch layouts are different models and not covered by this listing.

What does the 2.1 GHz clock speed mean when both Xeon Gold 5218R processors are installed?

Each of the two Gold 5218R CPUs runs at a base frequency of 2.1 GHz across its twenty cores, giving forty cores total at that speed before any turbo boost.

What does the PERC H730P controller cap in practice?

The PERC H730P manages the SATA drives attached to the twelve 3.5-inch bays and provides hardware RAID for those devices.

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