DELL PowerEdge R740xd 24SFF 2x Xeon Silver 4214R 256GB DDR4 No Drive

24-SFF Chassis for Storage-Dense Deployments

The Dell PowerEdge R740xd is a 2U rack server fitted with twenty-four 2.5-inch drive bays and a PERC H730P RAID controller. Two Xeon Silver 4214R processors running at 2.4 GHz provide 24 cores in total, while 256 GB of DDR4 ECC registered memory supports memory-intensive workloads. Integrated graphics and a 10 GbE two-port 562T adapter handle basic display and networking needs. The system ships without drives so you can populate the SAS backplane with the capacity and performance mix you require.

Suits Dense Virtualisation

This configuration targets teams building virtualisation clusters, hyper-converged platforms or backup targets that benefit from high drive-count density and hardware RAID. Organisations needing more than two processor sockets, GPU compute acceleration or memory beyond the 3 TB ceiling should evaluate alternative platforms. Buyers who want drives pre-installed or a smaller chassis footprint will also need a different model.

24-Bay 2.5-Inch SAS Backplane Decides Fit

The single specification that determines suitability is the twenty-four 2.5-inch SAS drive bays served by the PERC H730P controller. If your design requires that exact bay count and SAS connectivity, this chassis matches; if you need fewer bays, 3.5-inch support or a different RAID engine, another server is appropriate.