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The PowerEdge R640 is a general-purpose platform that is expandable up to 7.68TB of memory, up to twelve 2.5 inch drives, and flexible I/O options. The PowerEdge R640 can handle demanding workloads such as virtualization, dense private cloud, High Performance Computing (HPC), and software-defined storage. The PowerEdge R640 is the ideal dual-socket, 1U platform for dense scale-out data center computing. The PowerEdge R640 combines density, performance, and scalability to optimize application performance and data center density.
The PowerEdge R640 features:
The Dell EMC PowerEdge R740 and R740xd are two socket, 2U rack servers designed to run complex workloads using highly scalable memory, I/O capacity and network options. The R740 and R740xd 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, eCommerce, 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, without sacrificing I/O performance.