DELL PowerEdge R940 3U rack server 4x Xeon Gold 6134 3.2GHz 64GB DDR4 8x 600GB SAS H730P

Quad-socket 3U rack server

The Dell PowerEdge R940 packs four Intel Xeon Gold 6134 processors, each running at 3.2 GHz with eight cores, into a 3U chassis. Sixty-four gigabytes of DDR4 registered ECC memory and eight 600 GB 10K SAS drives are pre-installed. Dual 1 600 W platinum power supplies and iDRAC 9 Enterprise remote management come standard.

Suits dense database and virtualisation hosts

Organisations running memory-intensive databases, large virtual-machine clusters or real-time analytics benefit from the four-socket design and 48 DIMM slots that support up to 6 TB of DDR4. The PERC H730P controller handles RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 for local storage redundancy. Buyers who need GPU compute or more than eight 2.5-inch drive bays should evaluate other platforms.

Four Xeon Gold 6134 CPUs define the ceiling

With the maximum of four processors already installed, the system cannot accept additional sockets. Each CPU delivers eight cores at 3.2 GHz base and 3.7 GHz turbo, so total thread count and single-thread speed are fixed by this configuration. The LGA 3647 socket and Intel C620 chipset limit future upgrades to the same processor family.