DELL PowerEdge R740xd 2U Rack Server 2x Xeon Silver 4110 2.1GHz 8-Core 64GB DDR4 24x 300GB SAS H730P

Storage-dense 2U platform

The Dell PowerEdge R740xd is a 2U rack server built for workloads that need high drive density in a compact form factor. It ships with twenty-four 2.5-inch bays populated by 300 GB 10K SAS drives and a PERC H730P controller supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60. Dual Xeon Silver 4110 processors provide sixteen cores at 2.1 GHz with 3.0 GHz turbo, while 64 GB of DDR4 registered ECC memory occupies four of twenty-four slots. Redundant 1100 W platinum power supplies and iDRAC9 Enterprise remote management complete the package.

Suits capacity-first deployments

This configuration fits software-defined storage clusters, virtual desktop infrastructure hosts and service-provider platforms that prioritise raw SAS capacity and hardware RAID flexibility. The quad-port 1 GbE and 10 GbE SFP+ daughter card covers mixed network tiers without extra cards. Buyers needing all-flash speed, GPU compute trays or single-thread performance beyond 3.0 GHz turbo should evaluate alternative platforms.

24-bay SAS backbone

The defining spec is the twenty-four 300 GB 10K SAS drives behind a 12 Gb/s H730P controller, delivering dense rotational storage with battery-backed write cache in 2U. This drive count and controller combination determines whether the server matches a capacity-oriented brief or falls short for latency-sensitive all-flash designs.