DELL PowerEdge T440 5U rack server 2x Xeon Silver 4214 2.2GHz 12-core 32GB DDR4 H730P 16x 2.5" trays 2x 750W

Product identity

The Dell PowerEdge T440 is a 5U rack server configured with two Intel Xeon Silver 4214 processors, each running at 2.2 GHz with 12 cores and 3.2 GHz turbo. It includes 32 GB of DDR4 ECC registered memory across 16 slots, a PERC H730P 2 GB RAID controller, sixteen 2.5-inch hot-swap drive trays, dual 1 GbE ports, iDRAC 9 Express, and redundant 750 W platinum power supplies.

Who this suits

This server fits organisations running virtualisation platforms such as VMware ESXi, Hyper-V or Proxmox, hosting Microsoft SQL Server or other databases, providing file and print services, operating backup and disaster-recovery targets, or building software-defined storage and private-cloud infrastructure. The dual-socket design and 16-bay capacity support demanding multi-workload consolidation.

Who should look elsewhere

Buyers who need a pure tower form factor without rack conversion, require GPU-dense compute configurations, or need more than two processor sockets should evaluate other platforms.

Deciding specification

The PERC H730P controller provides hardware RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 with a 2 GB cache and battery backup, determining the storage performance and redundancy available to the sixteen SAS or SATA drive bays.