The PowerEdge R740 was designed to accelerate application performance leveraging accelerator cards and storage scalability. The 2-socket, 2U platform has the optimum balance of resources to power the most demanding environments.

| R740 | Technical Specification | |
| Processor | Up to two 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, up to 28 cores per processor | |
| Memory |  			 24 DDR4 DIMM slots, Supports RDIMM /LRDIMM, speeds up to 2933MT/s, 3TB max   			Up to 12 NVDIMM, 192 GB Max   			Up to 12 Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory PMem, 6.14TB max (7.68TB max with PMem + LRDIMM)   			Supports registered ECC DDR4 DIMMs only  			 |  		|
| Storage controllers |  			 Internal Controllers: PERC H330, H730P, H740P, HBA330    			External Controllers: H840, 12 Gbps SAS HBA    			Software RAID:S140    			Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem (BOSS):HWRAID 2 x M.2 SSDs 240GB, 480GB    			Internal Dual SD Module1  			 |  		|
| Storage | Front drive bays: Up to 16 x 2.5” SAS/SATA (HDD/SSD) max 122.88TB or up to 8 x 3.5” SAS/SATA HDD max 128TB Optional DVD-ROM, DVD+RW | |
| Power Supplies |  			 Titanium 750W, Platinum 495W, 750W,    			750W 240VDC,2   			1100W,    			1100W 380VDC2   			1600W, 2000W and 2400W, Gold 1100W -48VDC             Hot plug power supplies with full redundancy    			                                                                                             Up to 6 hot plugs fans with full redundancy  			 |  		|
| Form Factor | 2U rack server | |
| Embedded Management |  			 iDRAC9, iDRAC Direct, iDRAC RESTful with Redfish, Quick Sync 2 wireless module (optional)  			 |  		|
| I/O & Ports |  			 Network daughter card options   			4 x 1GbE or 2 x 10GbE + 2 x 1GbE or 4 x 10GbE or 2 x 25GbE   			Front ports: 1 x Dedicated iDRAC Direct Micro-USB, 2 x USB 2.0, 1 x USB 3.0 (optional), 1 x VGA   			Rear ports: 1 x Dedicated iDRAC network port, 1 x Serial, 2 x USB 3.0, 1 x VGA   			Video card: 2 x VGA   			Riser options with up to 8 PCIe Gen 3 slots, maximum of 4 x 16 slots  			 |  		|
The Dell EMC PowerEdge R740 are two socket, 2U rack servers designed to run complex workloads using highly scalable memory, I/O capacity and network options. The R740 features the 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor family, up to 24 DIMMs, PCI Express® (PCIe) 3.0 enabled expansion slots, and a choice of network interface technologies to cover NIC and rNDC. The PowerEdge R740 is a general-purpose platform capable of handling demanding workloads and applications, such as data warehouses, e-commerce, databases, and high-performance computing (HPC). The PowerEdge R740xd adds extraordinary storage capacity options, making it well-suited for data- intensive applications that require greater storage, while not sacrificing I/O performance.
R740 front views
The R740 supports up to 16 x 2.5 -inch or up to 8 x 3.5 -inch front-accessible, hot-plug hard drives that are secured by a removable front bezel. R740 Front view - 8 x 2.5 -inch hard drive configuration

R740 Front view - 16 x 2.5 -inch hard drive configuration

R740 Front view - 8 x 3.5 -inch hard drive configuration

The R740 back panel includes PSUs, Ethernet connectors, PCIe slots and many other features described in this guide R740 Rear view - with 8x PCIe slots available

R740 Rear view - with 4x PCIe slots available with riser 2 and riser 3 blanks


Figure 1. R740 internal chassis view

11. NVDIMM-N battery