DELL EMC PowerEdge Rackmount Server Series

Power Edge Rack Servers

R940

R840

R740xd

R740

R640

R540

R440

Key Features

Powerful
performance

Turbo-charge data
analytics

Scalable storage
performance

Optional
application performance

Performance and
adaptable

Balanced and
adaptable

Scale-out and adaptable

Target Workloads

In-memory database

Data-intensive
workloads, HFT and dense virtualization

SDS, service
providers and big data servers

VDI and cloud
workloads

Dense scale-out
data center computing and storage

Mail messaging and
virtualization

HPC, webtech and scale-out infrastructure

Type Of Processor

4 Intel Xeon Scalable processor

2 Intel Xeon Scalable processor

Memory Slot & ax

48 (6TB)

24 (3TB)

16 (2TB)

Disk drives up to

24 x 2.5”

26 x 2.5”

32 x 2.5” or

18 x 3.5”

16 x 2.5” or

8 x 3.5”

12 x 2.5” or

4 x 3.5”

14 x 3.5”

10 x 2.5” or

4 x 3.5”

NVMe drives up to

12

24

N/A

8

N/A

4

Gen3 PCIe slots up to

13

6

8

3

5

2

Accelerator support up to

N/A

2 x DW GPUs or

2 x FPGAs

Up to three 300W or six 150W GPUs, or up to three double-width or four
single-width FPGAs. GPU and FPGA options are available only 24 x 2.5” drive
chassis.

Up to three 300W or six 150W GPUs, or up to three double-width or four
single-width FPGAs.

Up to 1 single-width
GPU or up to 1 single-width FPGA

Rack height (U)

3

2

1

2

1

Integrated Security

TPM 1.2/2.0
optional, Digitally signed Firmware, Chassis Intrusion Alert and Secure Boot
being standard security on all racks

Integrated security
features such as Silicon Root of Trust, System Lockdown and System Erase come
standard on all racks except R340 and R240