DELL PowerEdge R740xd 2U 24x2.5" 2x Xeon Gold 6130 512GB DDR4 H730P

Storage-dense 2U server

The Dell PowerEdge R740xd is a 2U rack server built for storage-heavy workloads. It fits twenty-four 2.5-inch SAS or SATA drive trays and uses a PERC H730P controller with 2GB cache. Two Intel Xeon Gold 6130 processors provide thirty-two cores at 2.1GHz with 3.7GHz turbo. The system ships with 512GB of DDR4 2666MHz registered ECC memory across sixteen slots.

Best for software-defined storage and virtualisation

This platform suits organisations deploying software-defined storage, virtual desktop infrastructure or dense virtualisation clusters. The quad-port network daughter card adds two 1GbE and two 10Gb SFP+ connections. Redundant 1100W platinum power supplies and iDRAC9 Enterprise simplify remote management. Buyers needing GPU compute density or single-socket economics should evaluate different platforms.

Twenty-four 2.5-inch drive bays decide fit

The defining specification is the twenty-four front-accessible 2.5-inch trays supporting SAS and SATA drives. Maximum memory capacity reaches 3TB across twenty-four DDR4 slots. The H730P controller enables RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 plus pass-through. No drives are included, so capacity planning starts with the tray count.