DELL PowerEdge T440 5U rack server 2x Xeon Gold 5118 2.3GHz 12C 256GB DDR4 HBA330 8x 2.5" trays 2x750W PSU

PowerEdge T440 5U server

The Dell PowerEdge T440 is a 5U rack-mounted server system built for enterprise workloads. It ships with two Intel Xeon Gold 5118 processors, each delivering twelve cores at 2.3 GHz with a 3.2 GHz turbo frequency. The platform includes 256 GB of DDR4-2400 ECC registered memory across eight 32 GB modules and a Dell PERC HBA330 12 Gb/s SAS/SATA storage controller. Dual 750 W platinum-efficiency power supplies provide redundant hot-swap power.

Suited for virtualisation hosts

This configuration fits organisations running VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V or Proxmox VE clusters that need high core counts and large memory capacity. The sixteen 2.5-inch hot-swap bays — eight trays included — support dense SAS or SATA SSD deployments for databases, file services or software-defined storage. Buyers who need out-of-the-box hardware RAID write-back cache or a greater number of pre-installed drive trays should evaluate other platforms.

HBA330 12 Gb/s SAS/SATA controller

The installed Dell PERC HBA330 operates as a host bus adapter, presenting drives directly to the operating system without hardware RAID abstraction. This makes the controller the deciding factor for environments that rely on software-defined storage stacks such as Ceph or ZFS, while deployments requiring integrated RAID levels will need a different controller card.