DELL PowerEdge R940 3U rack server 4x Xeon 8160 2.1GHz 24C 768GB DDR4 8x 300GB SAS H730P

Dell PowerEdge R940 3U server

This 3U rack-mount server ships with four Intel Xeon Platinum 8160 processors running at 2.1 GHz with 24 cores each. It includes 768 GB of DDR4 registered ECC memory across 24 slots. A PERC H730P controller manages eight 300 GB 10K SAS drives in 2.5-inch bays. Dual 1600 W platinum power supplies and iDRAC9 Enterprise remote management come standard.

Suited for databases and virtualisation hosts

Organisations running memory-intensive workloads such as large SQL instances or dense VM clusters will benefit from the 48-core total and 768 GB capacity. Buyers who need more than 6 TB of RAM or more than four sockets should evaluate other platforms. Sites requiring solid-state storage from the factory or a different drive-count configuration will need a custom build.

Four-socket Xeon Platinum 8160 configuration

The server is populated with the maximum of four CPUs, each delivering 24 cores at 2.1 GHz with 3.7 GHz turbo. This socket count fixes the upper limit for both compute threads and memory channels at 48 slots supporting up to 6 TB. Any expansion plan must start from this fully populated baseline.