DELL PowerEdge R740xd 12LFF Xeon Silver 4114 64GB DDR4

Dense 12-bay storage server

The Dell PowerEdge R740xd packs twelve 3.5-inch drive bays into a 2U rack chassis. A single Xeon Silver 4114 running at 2.2 GHz with ten cores and 64 GB of DDR4 ECC memory handles the compute side. Dual 1100 W supplies and an iDRAC9 Enterprise licence complete the platform.

Suits storage-heavy workloads

This configuration fits archives, backup targets and media libraries that need many large drives behind one CPU. Buyers who want more compute threads, a second processor or GPU acceleration should look at something else because only one socket is populated and graphics are integrated.

Twelve 3.5-inch bays decide the fit

The PERC H730P controller manages up to twelve SATA drives, so the maximum raw capacity scales with the drives you add. If your project needs fewer bays, faster networking than the dual 10 GbE 562T ports or a different RAID feature set, another chassis will serve you better.