| Part No. | R740xd |
| Manufacturer | Dell Technologies |
| End of Life? | No |
| Rack Units | 2U |
| Height | 868mm |
| Width | 434mm |
| Depth | 737.5mm |
| CPU Socket(s) | Up to two Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, up to 28 cores per processor |
| Memory Slot(s) | 24 DDR4 DIMM slots, Supports RDIMM /LRDIMM, speeds up to 2666MT/s, 3TB max Up to 12 NVDIMM, 192 GB Max Supports registered ECC DDR4 DIMMs only |
| Drive Bays | Front bays: Up to 24 x 2.5” SAS/SATA (HDD/SSD), NVMe SSD max 153TB or up to 12 x 3.5” SAS/SATA HDD max 144TB Mid bay: Up to 4 x 2.5”, max 25TB SAS/SATA (HDD/SSD), NVMe SSD max 25TB or up to 4 x 3.5”, max 48TB Rear bays: Up to 4 x 2.5”, max 25TB SAS/SATA (HDD/SSD), NVMe SSD or up to 2 x 3.5” max 24TB SAS/SATA HDD |
| Supported OS | Canonical® Ubuntu® LTS Citrix® XenServer® Microsoft Windows Server® with Hyper-V Red Hat® Enterprise Linux SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server VMware® ESXi |
| USB Port(s) | Front: 2x USB 2.0, dedicated iDRAC Direct Micro-USB Rear: 2x USB 3.0 |
| PCI Slot(s) | Riser options with up to 8 PCIe Gen 3 slots, maximum of 4 x 16 slots |
| Serial Ports | Rear: 1x serial port |
| LAN Socket(s) | Network options 4 x 1GbE 2 x 10GbE + 2 x 1bGE 4 x 10GbE 2 x 25GbE |