Dell PowerEdge R740xd vs HPE ProLiant XL420 Gen9 Server
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Dell PowerEdge R740xd 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 HPE ProLiant XL420 Gen9 (Apollo 4200 Gen9) is a 2U dense storage server engineered for object storage, big data Hadoop analytics, and content repositories.
| Dell PowerEdge R740xd | HPE ProLiant XL420 Gen9 Server | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Dell | HPE |
| Status | end-of-sale | end-of-sale |
| Released | Jul 2017 | Jun 2015 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 2U rack dense storage |
| 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 32x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe (24 front, 4 mid, 4 rear) or 18x 3.5-inch (12 front, 4 mid, 2 rear) | — |
| 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; 1x 1GbE iDRAC9 dedicated port | — |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-plug 750W, 1100W, 1600W, 2000W or 2400W Platinum/Titanium | — |
| Processor | — | Up to 2 Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3/v4 series processors |
| Memory | — | 16 DDR4 DIMM slots up to 1TB DDR4-2400 Registered SmartMemory |
| Storage capacity | — | Up to 28 LFF drives (224TB) or 50 SFF drives (100TB) in 2U |
| Raid controllers | — | HPE Flexible Smart Array P840/4GB or H240 HBA |
| Power | — | Dual hot-plug 800W or 1400W Flex Slot power supplies |
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