DELL PowerEdge R750 2U 12x3.5" 2x Gold 6338 64GB 12x4TB HBA355i 57412 iDRAC9 2x1400W

Purpose-built enterprise server

The Dell PowerEdge R750 is a 2U rack system populated with twelve 3.5-inch bays, dual Intel Xeon Gold 6338 processors running at 2.0 GHz with 3.2 GHz turbo, 64 GB of DDR4 memory and a PERC HBA355i controller. Twelve enterprise 4 TB SATA drives ship installed, delivering high-capacity storage ready for database and virtualisation workloads. Remote management is handled by iDRAC9 Enterprise, while dual 1400 W platinum power supplies and included rails simplify deployment in standard racks.

Fit and exclusions

Organisations needing dense, compute-heavy platforms for virtualisation, analytics or database clusters will match the 32-core configuration and large memory headroom. Buyers who want hardware RAID acceleration should look elsewhere because the HBA355i provides pass-through only. Environments requiring 2.5-inch NVMe speed or GPU-accelerated AI pipelines are not addressed by this chassis and controller combination.

Deciding specification

The PERC HBA355i operates as a SAS pass-through adapter without RAID firmware, so the twelve 4 TB SATA drives appear as individual volumes to the operating system. Software-defined storage layers or host-based RAID must be planned before purchase. If the deployment expects a hardware RAID card with cache and battery backup, this server does not meet that requirement.