DELL PowerEdge T440 5U rack server 2x Xeon Gold 5120 2.2GHz 14 Core 16GB DDR4 H730P 16x 2.5" bays 2x 750W PSU

Dual-socket Xeon Gold server with sixteen drive bays

The Dell PowerEdge T440 is a 5U tower server fitted with two Intel Xeon Gold 5120 processors running at 2.2 GHz with a 3.2 GHz turbo frequency. It ships with 16 GB of DDR4-2400 ECC registered memory across two modules and includes a PERC H730P storage controller with 2 GB cache. Sixteen 2.5-inch hot-swap drive trays, dual gigabit Ethernet ports and iDRAC 9 Express remote management complete the base configuration. Redundant 750 W platinum power supplies provide hot-swap power resilience.

Suits virtualisation hosts

This system suits organisations deploying VMware ESXi, Hyper-V or Proxmox clusters that need dense local storage in a tower form factor. The sixteen drive bays support SAS, SATA and SSD media for large-capacity arrays or high-IOPS caching tiers. Buyers who require rack-mount rails or a front bezel should note those items are not included. Workloads demanding GPU acceleration or more than two processor sockets will need a different platform.

PERC H730P RAID controller defines storage

The installed H730P controller supports RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 plus pass-through mode with its onboard 2 GB cache. It connects to the sixteen 2.5-inch bays over 12 Gb/s SAS and SATA links. This single component determines which drive types, array configurations and performance characteristics are available for the server.