As both of the Dell PowerEdge R730 and R740 are the Dell R700 series servers, and R740 is the newer one, which will be the better choice for our needs?
In this article, we will compare R730 with R740 and find out the answer.
Features
Dell PowerEdge R730 excels at a wide range of demanding workloads for midsize and large enterprises, such as data warehouses, e-commerce, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), databases and high-performance computing HPC) as a data node.
Dell R730 provides these features:
- Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v4 product family with up to 22 cores
- Up to 24 DIMMs of high-capacity DDR4 memory
- Up to 7 PCIe 3.0 expansion slots
- Up to 2 internal GPU accelerators
Dell PowerEdge R740 was designed to accelerate application performance leveraging accelerator cards and storage scalability. The 2-socket, 2U platform has the optimum balance of resources to power the most demanding environments.
Dell R740 provides these features:
- 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors family with up to 28 cores
- Up to 24 DIMMs of high-capacity DDR4 memory
- Up to 8 PCIe 3.0 expansion slots
- Up to 3 internal GPU accelerators
Specification Comparison
Table 1 shows the comparison of R730 and R740.
| Series | PowerEdge R730 | PowerEdge R740 |
| Form factor | 2U | 2U |
| Processor | Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v4 product family | 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors |
| Processor sockets | 2 | 2 |
| Memory | Up to 3TB (24 DIMM slots): 4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB/64GB/128GB DDR4 up to 2400MT/s | 24 DDR4 DIMM slots, Supports RDIMM /LRDIMM, speeds up to 2933MT/s, 3TB max Up to 12 NVDIMM, 192 GB Max Supports registered ECC DDR4 DIMMs only |
| Controllers | Internal controllers: PERC S130 (SW RAID), PERC H330, PERC H730, PERC H730P
External HBAs (RAID): PERC H830 External HBAs (non-RAID): 12Gbps SAS HBA |
Internal controllers: PERC H330, H730P, H740P, Software RAID (SWRAID) S140
Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem: HWRAID 2 x M.2 SSDs 240GB, 480GB External PERC (RAID): H840 12Gbps SAS HBAs (non-RAID): External- 12Gbps SAS HBA (non-RAID), Internal- HBA330 (non-RAID) |
| Drive bays | Internal hard drive bay and hot-plug backplane:
Up to 16 x 2.5″ HDD: SAS, SATA, nearline SAS SSD: SAS, SATA Up to 8 x 3.5″ HDD: SAS, SATA, nearline SAS SSD: SAS, SATA |
Front drive bays: Up to 16 x 2.5” SAS/SATA (HDD/SSD) max 122.88TB or up to 8 x 3.5” SAS/SATA HDD max 112TB Optional DVD-ROM, DVD+RW |
| Power supplies | Titanium efficiency 750W AC power supply; 1100W DC power supply; Platinum efficiency 495W, 750W, 1100W AC power supply | Titanium 750W, Platinum 495W, 750W, 1100W, 1600W, and 2000W
48VDC 1100W, 380HVDC 1100W, 240HVDC 750W (China/Japan) Hot plug power supplies with full redundancy Up to 6 hot plugs fans with full redundancy |
Price
The price of PowerEdge R740 Rack Server is starting at $2,029.00 while R730 is starting at $1,189.00. It seems the R730 is more economical but we should know the R740 is more powerful.
Here we also share you some configurations of R730 and R740, you can find which is better to choose.
Table 2 shows Dell PowerEdge R730 Series configurations.
Table 3 shows Dell PowerEdge R740 Series configurations.
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