DELL PowerEdge R740xd 24SFF 2x Xeon Platinum 8160 768GB DDR4 No Drive

Dense 24-bay storage server

The Dell PowerEdge R740xd packs 24 small-form-factor drive bays into a 2U rack chassis, giving database and virtualisation clusters a high-capacity platform in minimal rack space. Dual Xeon Platinum 8160 processors and 768 GB of DDR4 ECC memory deliver the compute and memory bandwidth those workloads demand. A PERC H730P RAID controller and 10 GbE networking complete the I/O foundation. No drives are installed, so you choose the exact capacity and endurance mix.

Suits scale-out storage clusters

This configuration fits organisations building software-defined storage, hyper-converged infrastructure or large virtualisation farms that need many local drives and strong multi-threaded performance. Buyers who need GPU acceleration, more than two sockets, or a smaller chassis with fewer drive bays should evaluate other platforms. The fixed 2.1 GHz clock and Skylake-SP microarchitecture also limit single-thread speed for latency-sensitive tasks.

24 hot-plug 2.5-inch drive bays

The defining specification is the 24-bay 2.5-inch backplane, which sets the maximum raw storage ceiling and determines whether the server fits your density requirements. All other components — dual 24-core CPUs, 768 GB DDR4, H730P controller and 10 GbE — support that storage-first design.