Dell PowerEdge R740xd 2U 24x 2.5in SFF Xeon Scalable Server (Refurbished)

The Dell PowerEdge R740xd is the storage-heavy version of the R740. The 24-bay 2.5-inch chassis listed here is bought for software-defined storage, vSAN and Storage Spaces Direct nodes, large databases and any workload that needs many SSDs behind two Xeon sockets in 2U.

Like the rest of Dell's 14th generation, it takes one or two Intel Xeon Scalable processors. Dell's spec sheet lists 2nd Generation CPUs with up to 28 cores, and 1st Generation chips are common in refurbished stock. Memory is 24 DDR4 slots, RDIMM or LRDIMM, up to 2933 MT/s and 3TB. The front takes up to 24 x 2.5-inch SAS, SATA or NVMe drives, and Dell also offers a mid bay and rear bays with up to four more 2.5-inch drives each. Internal controllers are the PERC H330, H730P and H740P, the HBA330 for pass-through and S140 software RAID. A BOSS card with two M.2 SSDs keeps the operating system off the data drives.

A network daughter card supplies 4 x 1GbE, 2 x 10GbE plus 2 x 1GbE, 4 x 10GbE or 2 x 25GbE. Riser options give up to eight PCIe Gen3 slots. Dell notes that GPU and FPGA options are offered only on this 24 x 2.5-inch chassis. Power supplies run from 495W to 2400W, and iDRAC9 provides remote management.

ICT Devices builds the quote around the configuration you send. For an R740xd the details below change the price and the parts list most.

• How many of the 24 bays must be NVMe, since that decides the backplane and cabling
• Whether you need the mid bay or rear drive bays
• HBA330 for software-defined storage, or a PERC RAID controller
• Drive caddies and blanks for every bay you plan to use
• Power supply size once drives, CPUs and any GPUs are counted