DELL PowerEdge R940 3U Rack Server 4x Xeon Gold 5118 2.3GHz 128GB DDR4 8x 600GB SAS H730P

Four-socket Xeon Gold server for dense compute

The PowerEdge R940 packs four Intel Xeon Gold 5118 processors at 2.3 GHz with 12 cores each into a 3U rack chassis. It ships with 128 GB of DDR4 registered ECC memory across eight 16 GB modules. The system targets organisations that run virtualised workloads, in-memory databases or high-throughput transaction processing where core count and memory capacity matter more than single-thread speed.

PERC H730P controller and eight 600 GB SAS drives

The bundled Dell PERC H730P adds 2 GB of cache and supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 plus pass-through mode. Eight 2.5-inch 10 K RPM SAS drives provide 600 GB each on a 12 Gb/s interface. Buyers who need more storage bays or all-flash arrays will find the eight-bay front panel limiting.

3U form factor with dual 1600 W supplies

The 3U height fits standard racks but leaves no room for additional full-height expansion cards beyond the installed quad-port 1 GbE and 10 GbE SFP+ daughter card. Dual 1600 W platinum power supplies deliver redundancy, yet the fixed 48 DIMM slots and four-socket maximum mean memory and CPU scaling stop at 6 TB and four processors respectively.