Features

The PowerEdge R640 is the ideal dual-socket platform for dense scale-out data center computing and storage. Benefit from the flexibilty of 2.5” or 3.5” drives, the performance of NVMe and embedded intelligence to ensure optimized application performance in a secure platform

• Simplify deployment and easily scale from 3 to 1000+ nodes for software-defined storage with Dell EMC Ready Node for ScaleIO.
• Improve productivity with agent-free Dell EMC iDRAC9 for automated, efficient management
• Protect server configuration and firmware from malicious changes with new Configuration Lock-down.
• Use system erase of local storage to help ensure data privacy when you repurpose or retire servers.

Specification

• Processor: Up to two Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, up to 28 cores per processor
• Memory:                         
  24 DDR4 DIMM slots, Supports RDIMM /LRDIMM, speeds up to 2666MT/s, 3TB max
  Up to 12 NVDIMM, 192 GB Max 
  Supports registered ECC DDR4 DIMMs only
• Drive bays:
  Front drive bays: Up to 10 x 2.5” SAS/SATA (HDD/SSD) with up to 8 NVMe SSD max 58TB or up to 10 NVMe drives max 
  64TB, or up to 4 x 3.5” SAS/SATA HDD max 48TB
• Rear drive bays: Up to 2 x 2.5” SAS/SATA (HDD/SSD), NVMe SSD max 12TB
  Optional DVD-ROM, DVD+RW
• I/O & Ports: Network daughter card options 
  4 x 1GE or 2 x 10GE + 2 x 1GE or 4 x 10GE or 2 x 25GE
• Front ports: Video, 1 x USB 2.0, available USB 3.0, dedicated IDRAC Direct USB
• Rear ports: Video, serial, 2 x USB 3.0, dedicated iDRAC network port
• Video card: VGA, NVIDIA NVS310 available as PCIe card
• Up to 3 x Gen3 slots, all x16
• Storage controllers :      
  Internal controllers: PERC H330, H730p, H740p, Software RAID (SWRAID) S140
  Boot Optimized Storage Subsystem: HWRAID 2 x M.2 SSDs 120GB, 240 GB
• External PERC (RAID): H840
  12Gbps SAS HBAs (non-RAID):
• External- 12Gbps SAS HBA (non-RAID),
• Internal- HBA330 (non-RAID)