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Silver rack-mount server chassis with twelve 3.5-inch drive bays

DELL

DELL PowerEdge R740xd 12LFF 2x Xeon Gold 6126 384GB DDR4 No Drive

SKU CH-EMAB-9B4VF

A 12-bay 3.5-inch rack server with dual Xeon Gold 6126 processors at 2.6GHz, 384GB DDR4 ECC memory and a PERC H730P RAID controller, sold without drives

  • ProcessorIntel Xeon
  • Installed RAM384 GB
  • Type of memoryDDR4
  • Processor speed2.6 GHz
  • Installed CPUs2
  • Max supported CPUs2
  • Dual Xeon Gold 6126 CPUs deliver 24 cores at 2.6GHz
  • 384GB DDR4 ECC registered memory supports large datasets
  • 12 LFF bays accept 3.5" SATA drives
  • PERC H730P RAID controller manages storage arrays
  • iDRAC9 Enterprise licence enables remote server management

Dense Storage Server

The Dell PowerEdge R740xd fits twelve 3.5-inch drive bays in a 2U rack chassis and ships with two Xeon Gold 6126 processors running at 2.6GHz. It is built for workloads that need large local capacity and dual-socket compute in a single rack unit.

Dual 1100W Supplies and iDRAC9

Redundant 1100-watt power supplies feed the CPUs, 384GB of DDR4 ECC memory and the PERC H730P RAID controller while iDRAC9 Enterprise provides remote management. The integrated graphics and dual 10GbE 562T ports keep auxiliary traffic off the main data path.

Expands From Smaller 2U or Tower Systems

Teams moving from eight-bay 2U servers or tower platforms gain twelve hot-swap bays and a second socket without adding rack height. The jump makes sense when storage density and dual-processor throughput are the limiting factors.

How it compares

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

Price $2,142.99
Typical for this category: the median of 17,641 items is $1,910.99.
Installed RAM 384 GB
Higher than about 75% of the 15,103 comparable items (median 128 GB).
Processor speed 2.6 GHz
Higher than about 80% 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 speed2.6 GHz
Installed CPUs2
Max supported CPUs2
Memory
Installed RAM384 GB
Type of memoryDDR4
Maximum RAM capacity3 TB
Storage
Installed storage96,00
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 install the 12 LFF drives into the 3.5 inch bays and what step do people miss?

Slide each 3.5 inch drive into the front bay until the latch clicks; the step people miss is creating the virtual disk in the PERC H730P BIOS before the OS sees any volume.

What maintenance or replacement will the 2x 1100W power supplies need later?

The redundant 1100W units are hot-swap; if one fails the iDRAC9 Enterprise alert lights the amber LED and you replace only that module without downtime.

What limit shows up first when the 2x Xeon Gold 6126 2.6GHz CPUs run sustained 100 percent load?

The 12-core 2.6GHz processors hit their thermal ceiling before the 384GB DDR4 or the PERC H730P controller saturates, so airflow and inlet temperature become the first bottleneck.

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