DELL PowerEdge R740xd 2U 12 Bay 3.5" 2x Xeon Gold 6130 2.1GHz 16 Core 256GB DDR4 12x 6TB H730P

Dell PowerEdge R740xd 2U 12-Bay Server

This 2U rack server combines dense 3.5-inch drive capacity with dual-processor performance. It ships with two Intel Xeon Gold 6130 16-core CPUs at 2.1 GHz and 256 GB of DDR4 registered ECC memory. A PERC H730P controller manages twelve 6 TB 7.2K SATA drives for high-capacity storage. Redundant 750 W platinum power supplies and iDRAC9 Enterprise remote management are included.

Suited for storage-heavy workloads

The twelve-bay chassis and dual 16-core processors make this platform a fit for software-defined storage, virtual desktop infrastructure or service-provider environments. Quad-port networking with two 1 GbE and two 10 Gb SFP+ ports handles mixed traffic. Buyers who need more than 24 DIMM slots, more than two sockets or all-flash performance should look at a different platform.

12 x 3.5-inch SATA bays with PERC H730P RAID

The single specification that decides fit is the twelve 3.5-inch drive bays connected to a hardware RAID controller supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60. If the deployment requires that exact bay count and RAID flexibility, this server matches; otherwise a different chassis or controller is required.