DELL PowerEdge R740xd 12LFF 2x Xeon Gold 6138 256GB DDR4 No Drive

Rack server with 12 large-form-factor bays

This Dell PowerEdge R740xd arrives as a 2U rack-mount server populated with 12 3.5-inch drive bays and dual Xeon Gold 6138 processors running at 2.0 GHz. Two CPUs deliver 20 cores each, supported by 256 GB of DDR4 ECC registered memory and a PERC H730P RAID controller. Integrated graphics, a 10 GbE 562T dual-port adapter and iDRAC9 Enterprise remote management are factory-fitted. Two 1100 W power supplies provide redundant power. No drives are installed.

Suited to storage-dense workloads.

Organisations that need high local capacity in a 2U form factor will match the 12-bay chassis and dual-socket compute. Buyers who require GPU acceleration, single-thread performance above 2.0 GHz or a smaller footprint should evaluate alternative platforms. The configuration ships without storage media, so teams must provision their own SATA drives.

12 × 3.5-inch drive bays define capacity ceiling

The single specification that decides fit is the twelve 3.5-inch LFF bays, which set the maximum number of spinning drives or SATA SSDs the system can hold. If the deployment demands more than 12 large-form-factor slots, this chassis cannot satisfy it.