Dell PowerEdge R740 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem DE6000H
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 DE6000H is a midrange hybrid storage array engineered to handle high-bandwidth enterprise streaming, large database consolidation, and high-performance computing storage tiers.
| Dell PowerEdge R740 | Lenovo ThinkSystem DE6000H | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | Lenovo |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| 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 SFF or 60x 3.5-inch 4U chassis; expandable up to 480 drives via D1224/D3284 enclosures |
| 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 AC power supplies |
| Controllers | — | Dual active-active controller canisters with 64GB or 128GB total system cache |
| Host interfaces | — | Up to 8x 32Gb FC, 25Gb iSCSI, 100Gb NVMe-oF, or 12Gb SAS host ports per controller |
| Max performance | — | Up to 1,000,000 IOPS and up to 21 GB/s sequential read bandwidth |
| Features | — | Dynamic Disk Pools, snapshot copies, volume copy, synchronous and asynchronous replication |
| Management | — | SANtricity System Manager (HTML5 web GUI) |
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