DELL PowerEdge R740xd2 2U Rack Server 26x 8TB 2x Xeon Gold 6150 18 Core 128GB DDR4

2U rack server with 26 drive bays

The Dell PowerEdge R740xd2 is a 2U rackmount server system built for high-capacity storage deployments. It holds twenty-six 3.5-inch hard drives and runs on two Intel Xeon Gold 6150 processors, each with eighteen cores at 2.7 GHz. The system includes 128 GB of DDR4-2666 ECC registered memory and a Dell PERC HBA330 storage controller. Dual 1100 W platinum power supplies provide redundant hot-swap power.

Suited for storage-dense workloads.

This server fits organisations that need massive local storage in a two-rack-unit footprint, such as backup repositories, media archives or software-defined storage nodes. The twenty-six installed 8 TB drives deliver large raw capacity with 7.2K RPM SATA reliability. Buyers who need all-flash performance, GPU acceleration or more than two processor sockets should evaluate other platforms. The HBA330 controller operates in non-RAID mode, so environments requiring hardware RAID must add a PERC card.

Twenty-six 3.5-inch drive bays in 2U

The defining specification is the twenty-six-bay 3.5-inch chassis within a 2U rack height. This density determines whether the system meets your capacity-per-rack-unit target. The LGA 3647 socket and sixteen DDR4 slots set the processor and memory ceiling, while the dual-port 10/25 Gb SFP28 mezzanine card fixes the high-speed networking interface.