DELL PowerEdge R740xd 12LFF 2x Xeon Gold 6126 768GB DDR4 No Drive

12-Bay 3.5-Inch Rack Server

The Dell PowerEdge R740xd is a 2U rack-mounted server system built for high-capacity storage workloads. It ships with two Intel Xeon Gold 6126 processors running at 2.6GHz and 768GB of DDR4 ECC registered memory. The chassis supports up to twelve 3.5-inch SATA drives and includes a PERC H730P RAID controller with 4800MB cache. Remote management is handled by iDRAC9 Enterprise.

Storage-Focused Deployments

This configuration suits organisations that need dense local storage for databases, backup targets or software-defined storage clusters. The twelve drive bays and large memory footprint support heavy virtualisation or analytics tasks. Buyers who require GPU compute acceleration or 2.5-inch all-flash density should evaluate alternative platforms. The integrated graphics and lack of installed drives also limit immediate use for visual workloads or boot-from-SAN scenarios.

Dual Xeon Gold 6126 CPUs

The two 12-core Gold 6126 processors provide 24 total cores and 19.25MB cache per chip, setting the performance ceiling for compute-heavy applications. Memory capacity can scale to 3TB across 24 DIMM slots when workloads grow. The 1100W redundant power supplies and 10GbE 562T adapter are included to match the platform's thermal and network demands.