DELL PowerEdge R940 3U rack server 4x Xeon Gold 6134 3.2GHz 64GB DDR4 8x 300GB SAS H730P

Mission-critical 4-socket server

The Dell PowerEdge R940 is a 3U rack server built for heavy compute workloads. Four Intel Xeon Gold 6134 processors each run at 3.2 GHz with 8 cores and 3.7 GHz turbo. Sixty-four gigabytes of DDR4 2666 MHz registered ECC memory are installed across 48 slots. Eight 300 GB 10K SAS drives connect through a PERC H730P 2 GB controller with battery-backed cache. Dual 1600 W platinum power supplies, iDRAC9 Enterprise, quad-port 1/10 GbE networking and rails complete the package.

Buyers needing dense four-socket performance

This platform suits organisations running large databases, virtualisation clusters or in-memory analytics that benefit from four processors and high core counts in 3U. The eight 2.5-inch bays are populated with 10K SAS drives, so teams wanting all-flash arrays or larger capacity disks will need to reconfigure storage. Workloads that demand GPU acceleration or more than 64 GB of memory out of the box should evaluate other configurations.

PERC H730P RAID controller

The installed Dell PERC H730P provides 12 Gb/s SAS/SATA connectivity with 2 GB cache and supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 plus pass-through. This single component determines the storage topology, data protection level and rebuild performance for the eight 300 GB drives. Verify that the RAID modes and controller cache meet application requirements before deployment.