DELL PowerEdge R740xd 24SFF 2x Xeon Gold 5120 128GB DDR4 No Drive rack server

24-bay R740xd with dual Xeon Gold 5120

The Dell PowerEdge R740xd is a 2U rack server fitted with 24 front-accessible 2.5-inch drive bays. Two Intel Xeon Gold 5120 processors running at 2.2 GHz provide 28 cores total and 19.25 MB cache each. The system ships with 128 GB of DDR4 ECC registered memory and a PERC H730P RAID controller. No drives are included, allowing the buyer to populate storage as required.

Suits storage-dense workloads.

This platform suits organisations building high-capacity storage arrays, software-defined storage nodes or backup targets that benefit from the 24-bay chassis and hardware RAID. Buyers needing GPU acceleration for compute or rendering workloads cannot add full-height accelerators in this form factor. The integrated graphics and lack of installed drives also make it unsuitable as a ready-to-run application server without further configuration.

24 x 2.5-inch bays dictate storage scale

The single specification that decides fit is the 24-bay 2.5-inch chassis paired with the PERC H730P controller. It sets the maximum number of SATA drives the server can hold and the RAID levels available. If the project requires more bays, larger 3.5-inch drives or a different controller feature set, this chassis will not meet the requirement.