DELL PowerEdge R940 3U Rack Server 4x Xeon Gold 5118 2.3GHz 12C 128GB DDR4 H730P 8x 2.5" Trays

PowerEdge R940 four-socket rack server

The Dell PowerEdge R940 is a 3U rack-mount server equipped with four Intel Xeon Gold 5118 processors, each running at 2.3 GHz with 12 cores. It ships with 128 GB of DDR4 registered ECC memory installed across 48 slots and includes a PERC H730P RAID controller with 2 GB cache. Dual 1600 W platinum power supplies and iDRAC9 Enterprise remote management come standard.

Suits dense virtualisation and in-memory workloads

This configuration targets organisations that run large virtual-machine clusters, in-memory databases or high-thread-count applications and need four sockets in a 3U chassis. The eight 2.5-inch SAS/SATA drive bays and quad-port 1GbE and 10Gb SFP+ networking support substantial I/O. Buyers who require more than eight internal drive bays, GPU compute modules or a form factor smaller than 3U should evaluate other platforms.

PERC H730P RAID controller with 2 GB cache

The storage subsystem centres on a Dell PERC H730P controller offering 12 Gb/s SAS/SATA connectivity and a 2 GB battery-backed cache. It supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 plus pass-through mode, giving flexibility for performance or redundancy. The server provides eight hot-swap 2.5-inch trays but no drives are included, so the buyer must populate bays with compatible SAS or SATA media.