Dell PowerEdge R740xd 24 Bay 2.5" 2U Server 2x Xeon Gold 5118 2.3GHz 12 Core 128GB DDR4 H730P 2x 800GB SSD

Dense 2U Storage Platform

The Dell PowerEdge R740xd is a 2U rack server that fits twenty-four 2.5-inch drive bays into a compact chassis. Two Intel Xeon Gold 5118 processors supply 24 cores at 2.3 GHz with a 3.2 GHz turbo frequency. A PERC H730P controller with 2 GB cache manages RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 across SATA and SAS devices. The system ships with 128 GB of DDR4 registered ECC memory in eight 16 GB modules and two 800 GB SATA SSDs.

Virtualisation Hosts Not GPU Farms

This server suits teams running software-defined storage, virtual desktop infrastructure, or dense virtualisation clusters that need many drive slots and dual 10 Gb SFP+ ports. The quad-port X520/I350 daughter card adds two 1 GbE links for management traffic. Buyers who need GPU acceleration, PCIe-attached storage beyond the SAS/SATA backplane, or single-thread performance above the provided turbo frequency should look at a different platform.

Twenty-Four Bay Chassis Decides Fit

The defining specification is the 2U enclosure with twenty-four hot-swap 2.5-inch bays wired to the H730P controller. That bay count and controller combination fixes the maximum number of drives and the RAID levels available without adding external enclosures. If the workload demands more internal bays or a different controller feature set, this chassis will not meet the requirement.