DELL PowerEdge R740xd 12LFF Xeon Bronze 3104 1.7GHz 128GB DDR4

Dell PowerEdge R740xd 12-Bay Server

This Dell PowerEdge R740xd is a 2U rack-mount server configured with twelve 3.5-inch drive bays, a single Intel Xeon Bronze 3104 processor running at 1.7 GHz and 128 GB of DDR4 ECC registered memory. It ships with a PERC H730P RAID controller and dual 1100 W power supplies for redundant operation. The integrated iDRAC9 Enterprise licence provides full remote management out of the box.

Suits storage-heavy workloads

The twelve-bay chassis and large memory capacity make this platform a good fit for file serving, backup repositories or virtual-machine clusters that prioritise capacity over raw compute density. Buyers who need a second processor, GPU acceleration or all-flash performance should evaluate a different chassis. The single six-core CPU limits throughput for heavily threaded applications or high-frequency trading workloads.

Twelve 3.5-inch drive bays define capacity potential

The 12 LFF bay count is the key specification that determines whether this server matches your storage design; it supports up to twelve SATA hard drives behind the PERC H730P controller. Maximum memory scales to 3 TB across 24 DIMM slots when both processor sockets are populated.