Dell PowerEdge R640 - System features; Product comparison

System features
Compared to previous generations, the PowerEdge R640 oers faster processing power and advanced system management.
The R640 system is a powerhouse 2S/1U rack system, which emphasizes performance and reliability in areas such as virtualization, power,
thermal and systems management, and usability. It is designed for mid-size to large data centers that require high memory capacity and
performance.
The R640 system consists of the planar subsystem with control panel, SAS backplane, storage card, riser card, VGA port, Storage
Enclosure Processor (SEP) (4 x HDD back plane, eight HDD back plane and 2 x rear back plane), expander—10 HDD system. It is a two-
chip platform (CPU and PCH) because this family of processors includes an Integrated Memory Controller (IMC) and Integrated I/O (IIO)
(such as PCI Express and DMI3) on a single silicon die.
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Table 2. Feature comparison
Feature PowerEdge R640 PowerEdge R630
Processors Intel Xeon Scalable Processor Family Intel® Xeon processor E5-2600 v3
(Haswell) or E5- 2600 v4 (Broadwell)
Chipset Intel C620 Intel C610
Memory 24x DDR4 RDIMM/LR-DIMM
12x NVDIMM + 12 x RDIMM
24x DDR4 RDIMM/LR-DIMM
Chassis Storage design modularity
• 4 Hard Drive Chassis
• 8 Hard Drive Chassis
• 10 Hard Drive Chassis
Three individual chassis for three SKU
• 8 Hard Drive Chassis
• 10 Hard Drive Chassis
• 24 Hard Drive Chassis
Disk Drives
• Front drive bays: Up to 10 x 2.5 inch
SAS/SATA (HDD/SSD) with up to 8
NVMe SSD 58TB (maximum) or up to 4
x 3.5 inch SAS/SATA HDD 40TB
(maximum)
• Rear drive bays: Up to 2 x 2.5 inch SAS/
SATA (HDD/SSD), NVMe SSD 12TB
(maximum)
• 8 x 2.5 inch SAS/SATA or SATA only
• 10 x2.5 inch SAS/SATA or SAS/SATA/
NVMe (NVMe up to 4)
• 24 x 1.8 inch SATA (single PERC or dual
PERCs)
PCIe SSD Up to 8x CPU Direct Attach PCIe SSD Up to 4x PCIe SSD from PCIe bridge card
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