DELL PowerEdge R740xd 2U rack server 2× Xeon Gold 6134 3.2GHz 256GB DDR4 24× 300GB SAS H730P

Dense 2U storage server

The PowerEdge R740xd packs twenty-four 2.5-inch drive bays and dual Xeon Gold 6134 processors into a 2U rack footprint. Eight-core CPUs at 3.2 GHz with 3.7 GHz turbo and 256 GB of DDR4 2666 MHz ECC memory provide the compute base for software-defined storage or virtual desktop infrastructure workloads.

Upgrade from direct-attached arrays

The PERC H730P controller with 2 GB cache brings hardware RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 to twenty-four 300 GB 10K SAS drives, replacing JBOD shelves that lack integrated redundancy. The jump is worth it when you need a single chassis that delivers both high spindle count and dual-socket processing without a separate controller appliance.

Sustained throughput under load

Dual 1100 W platinum power supplies and redundant hot-swap cooling keep all twenty-four drives and both CPUs running at rated speed during continuous rebuilds or streaming writes. Quad-port networking with two 10 Gb SFP+ and two 1 GbE links prevents the network from becoming the bottleneck while iDRAC 9 Enterprise monitors thermals and power draw remotely.