Dell PowerEdge R740 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem D1224 Drive Enclosure
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerEdge R740 is an enterprise 2U rack server powered by 2 Intel Xeon Scalable 1st Gen (Skylake) and 2nd Gen (Cascade Lake) and 24 memory slots supporting up to 3072GB DDR4-2666 / DDR4-2933 RDIMM / LRDIMM. The Lenovo ThinkSystem D1224 is a 2U direct-attached 24-drive small form factor (2.5-inch) storage expansion enclosure.
| Dell PowerEdge R740 | Lenovo ThinkSystem D1224 Drive Enclosure | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | Lenovo |
| Status | end-of-sale | current |
| Released | Jul 2017 | Sep 2018 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 2U rack |
| Cpu sockets | 2 | — |
| Cpu platform | Intel Xeon Scalable 1st Gen (Skylake) and 2nd Gen (Cascade Lake), up to 28 cores, 205W TDP | — |
| Memory slots | 24 | — |
| Memory type | DDR4-2666 / DDR4-2933 RDIMM / LRDIMM | — |
| Memory max (GB) | 3,072 | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 16x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA or 8x 3.5-inch SAS/SATA drives | 24x 2.5-inch hot-swap 12Gb SAS SSD/HDD bays |
| Pcie slots | Up to 8 PCIe Gen3 slots | — |
| Gpu support | Up to 3x 300W double-wide or 6x 150W single-wide GPUs | — |
| Network onboard | Network Daughter Card (NDC) slot with 4x 1GbE, 2x 10GbE + 2x 1GbE, or 4x 10GbE options; 1x 1GbE iDRAC9 dedicated port | — |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-plug 495W, 750W, 1100W, 1600W, 2000W or 2400W Platinum/Titanium | Dual redundant hot-swap 580W AC power supplies |
| Enclosure type | — | 2U 24-drive Small Form Factor (SFF 2.5-inch) drive enclosure |
| Interface modules | — | Dual ESMs each equipped with three 12Gb Mini-SAS HD (SFF-8644) ports |
| Compatibility | — | Compatible with ThinkSystem DE series arrays and ThinkSystem rack/tower servers |
| Redundancy | — | Dual active-active SAS data paths with redundant power and cooling |
| Management | — | In-band SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) |
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