Dell EMC PowerEdge R740 - Memory Specifications; Storage Controller Specifications; Drive Specifications; Hard Drives

Memory specications
The PowerEdge R740 system supports up to twenty four 288-pins RDIMMS, LRDIMMS and NVDIMM-Ns with speeds of 2666 MT/s,
2400 MT/s and 2133 MT/s with support for memory optimized operation.
Table 19. Memory specications
DIMM type DIMM rank
DIMM
capacity
Single processor Dual processors
Minimum RAM Maximum RAM Minimum RAM Maximum RAM
LRDIMM Quad rank 64 GB 64 GB 768 GB 128 GB 1536 GB
RDIMM Single rank 8 GB 8 GB 96 GB 16 GB 192 GB
RDIMM Dual rank 16 GB 16 GB 192 GB 32 GB 384 GB
RDIMM Dual rank 32 GB 32 GB 384 GB 64 GB 768 GB
NVDIMM-N Single rank 16 GB
Not supported
with single
processor
Not supported
with single
processor
RDIMM: 192 GB RDIMM: 384 GB
NVDIMM-N: 16 GB NVDIMM-N: 192 GB
NOTE: 8 GB RDIMMs and NVDIMM-N must not be mixed.
NOTE: Minimum of two CPUs are required for any congurations that support NVDIMM-
N.
Storage controller specications
The PowerEdge R740 system supports:
• Internal storage controller cards: PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) H330, PERC H730P, PERC H740P, HBA330, S140, and Boot
Optimized Server Storage (BOSS-S1).
• External storage controller cards: PERC H840 and 12Gbps SAS HBA.
Drive specications
Hard drives
The PowerEdge R740 system supports SAS, SATA, Nearline SAS hard drives or SSDs.
Table 20. Supported hard drive options for the PowerEdge R740 system
Eight drives system Up to eight 3.5 inch or 2.5 inch (SAS, SATA or Nearline SAS) front
accessible drives in slots 0 through 7
Sixteen drives system Up to sixteen 2.5 inch (SAS, SATA or Nearline SAS) front accessible drives
in slots 0 through 15
CAUTION: Mixing of 2.5 inch 10K or 15K SAS hard drives with 2.5 inch 7.2K SATA or Nearline SAS hard drives in the same
backplane is not supported.
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Technical specications