Dell PowerEdge MX740c vs Lenovo ThinkSystem SN550
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The PowerEdge MX740c is a two-socket modular compute blade for the MX7000 chassis, built with 1st and 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. The Lenovo ThinkSystem SN550 is a half-wide 2-socket blade server engineered for the Flex System Enterprise Chassis.
| Dell PowerEdge MX740c | Lenovo ThinkSystem SN550 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | Lenovo |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Sep 2018 | Jul 2017 |
| Form factor | blade | blade |
| Cpu sockets | 2 | — |
| Cpu platform | 1st and 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors | — |
| Memory slots | 24 | — |
| Memory type | DDR4 ECC RDIMM/LRDIMM up to 2933 MT/s | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 6x 2.5in SAS/SATA/NVMe drives | Up to 2x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe hot-swap SSDs plus dual internal M.2 boot drives |
| Pcie slots | 2x PCIe Gen3 mezzanine fabric slots plus dual M.2 boot | — |
| Processor | — | Up to 2x 1st or 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors up to 28 cores each (up to 205W TDP) |
| Memory | — | 24x DDR4 DIMM slots (12 per CPU) supporting up to 3TB DDR4-2933 ECC RDIMM/LRDIMM |
| Expansion slots | — | 2x PCIe 3.0 x16 I/O mezzanine slots connecting to Flex System midplane fabric switches |
| Network | — | Mezzanine I/O cards supporting dual or quad-port 10GbE, 25GbE, or 16Gb/32Gb Fibre Channel |
| Power supply | — | Shared power and cooling delivered through the Flex System Enterprise Chassis |
| Management | — | Lenovo XClarity Controller (XCC) |
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