DELL PowerEdge R740xd 24SFF 2x Xeon Gold 6134 3.2GHz 1TB DDR4

Dense 24-bay compute node

The Dell PowerEdge R740xd 24SFF packs two Xeon Gold 6134 processors running at 3.2GHz and 1TB of DDR4 memory into a 2U rack chassis. Twenty-four 2.5-inch drive bays give storage-heavy workloads room to scale. A PERC H730P RAID controller and dual 1100W supplies complete the platform.

Suits storage-heavy clusters, not GPU farms

Database, virtualisation and object-storage clusters that need many spindles in a single node will use the 24 bays and the 1TB memory ceiling. Buyers who need GPU acceleration or more than two sockets should look elsewhere because the chassis has no PCIe space for accelerators and the socket count is fixed at two.

The 24-bay 2.5-inch chassis decides fit

With twenty-four front-accessible 2.5-inch bays, this server is built for capacity density rather than raw compute density. If the deployment needs fewer drives but more expansion slots, a different chassis is required.