Dell PowerEdge R740 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem TS4300 Tape Library
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 TS4300 Tape Library is a modular high-density tape automation system engineered for secure long-term data archiving, compliance retention, and offline air-gapped ransomware protection.
| Dell PowerEdge R740 | Lenovo ThinkSystem TS4300 Tape Library | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | Lenovo |
| Status | end-of-sale | current |
| Released | Jul 2017 | Jul 2017 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 3U 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 | — |
| 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 power supplies |
| Library type | — | Modular 3U base tape automation library expandable up to 21U (7 modules) |
| Cartridge slots | — | Up to 40 cartridge slots per 3U module; scales up to 280 slots in 21U |
| Drive support | — | Up to 3 half-height or 1 full-height + 1 half-height LTO drive per module (up to 21 drives total) |
| Drive technologies | — | LTO-6, LTO-7, LTO-8, and LTO-9 tape drives with dual-port 8Gb/16Gb FC or 6Gb/12Gb SAS interfaces |
| Max capacity | — | Up to 12.6PB compressed data capacity (with LTO-9 2.5:1 compression in 21U) |
| Features | — | WORM cartridge support, hardware AES-256 encryption, barcode reader, remote management |
| Management | — | Embedded web-based browser interface and SNMP |
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