DELL PowerEdge R740xd2 2U Rack Server 2x Xeon 8260 2.4GHz 24C 64GB DDR4 26x 4TB SATA H730P 2x 1100W

Storage density and compute scale

This Dell PowerEdge R740xd2 is a 2U rack server built for data-intensive workloads that demand high local capacity. It ships with twenty-six 3.5-inch bays populated by 4TB 7.2K SATA drives and dual Xeon Platinum 8260 processors delivering forty-eight total cores at 2.4GHz with 3.9GHz turbo. The H730P controller manages RAID 0/1/5/6/10/50/60 across the array.

Suited roles and limits

The platform fits backup repositories, software-defined storage clusters and media archives where sequential throughput and raw capacity matter more than flash latency. Buyers needing all-flash performance, GPU-accelerated compute or single-socket efficiency should evaluate alternative platforms better aligned with those workloads.

The deciding specification

Twenty-six 3.5-inch drive bays in a 2U chassis define whether this chassis meets the density target; no other 2U server in this series offers the same bay count. If the deployment requires fewer bays or 2.5-inch form factors, a different PowerEdge model will use less rack space and power.