Dell PowerEdge R760XD2 CTO Rack Server

The Dell PowerEdge R760xa, is a purpose-built server designed to boost acceleration performance across the widest range of customer needs.

Meet your growing unstructured data needs with object storage technology

Meet your growing unstructured data needs with object storage technology designed to be easily configurable, serviceable, and scalable. This 2U, 2 socket server is ideal for file and object storage, video capture/retrieval, and content delivery networks.

Be confident knowing that with seven percent more drives and a capacity of up to 22 TB, the R760xd2 can manage the explosive growth of data. And, latency has been reduced using storage tiering and accelerators supported by PCIe Gen4. The system also offers a larger number of available PCIe slots with multiple configurations based on your requirements.

• Maximize storage with seven percent more 3.5-inch drive space with up to 28 drives for a total capacity of 616 TB
• Significantly reduce latency and improve performance using NVMe drives and NVIDIA accelerators
• Reduce services cost when changing hot-plug drives and PCIe cards with the new external rail feature
• Stay air-cooled with Smart Cooling technology including optimized chassis, fans, and baffles managed by Power Manager, the intelligent management software

Before we start let me show you some odd rules that will change the way you configure the server.

• Single CPU support is there only for No Riser Configruations
• In a "No riser" Configuration. The System cannot support the same type of 2.5" drive in front and rear storage (4 x 2.5") when using 2.5" in a 3.5" Carrier.
• Rear Storage has a Drive Capacity limit of 7.68TB
• The PERC H965e is restricted to slot 3 in configuration 2
• GPUs are supported in Configuration 3 Only
• Non-populated DIMMs must have a blank in Configuration 3.
• For more details about these rules and limitations, please read the manual below.

Front Bay

Drive Options

12x 3.5" SAS/SATA

Supported Drives

SAS 12Gb/s 7.2K 2TB - 22TB
SATA 6Gb/s 7.2K 2TB - 22TB

Mid Bay

Drive Options

12x 3.5" SAS/SATA

Supported Drives

SAS 12Gb/s 7.2K 2TB - 22TB
SATA 6Gb/s 7.2K 2TB - 22TB

Back Bay

Drive Options

Up to 4x 3.5" SAS/SATA
Up to 4x 2.5" Drives with 3.5" carrier
Up to 2x 2.5" NVMe
Up to 4x E3.S NVMe

Supported Drives

SAS 12Gb/s 10K & 24Gb/s SSD
SATA 6Gb/s SSD
NVMe Gen 4 SSD

Processor

The following lists the features and functions that are in the upcoming 4th Generation Intel® Xeon Scalable Processor offering:

• Faster UPI with up to four Intel Ultra Path Interconnect (Intel UPI) at up to 16 GT/s, increasing multi-socket bandwidth.
• More, faster I/O with PCI Express 5 and up to 80 lanes (per socket)
• Enhanced Memory Performance with DDR5 support and memory speed up to 4800 MT/s in one DIMM per channel (1DPC) and 4400 MT/s in two DIMM per channel (2DPC)
• New built-in accelerators for data analytics, networking, storage, crypto, and data compression

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Heatsink & Fans

This server does not support high-end CPUs so the Standard 2U Heat Sink is the only one for this server. The same goes for the Fan system in this server.

The 6x Standard Hot-Swap Fan is the only choice for the PowerEdge R760xd2 Rack Server. Please view the manual below for more detailed information about the Ambient Temperature by looking up the "Thermal Restrictions Matrix".

With two CPUs you can install up to 16 DDR5 DIMM slots, support RDIMM 1 TB max, and speeds up to 4800 MT/s. Supports registered ECC DDR5 DIMMs only.

Up to 2 x 75 W SW, 1 x 75 W SW + 1 x 150 W SW or 1 x 180 W DW

All GPU/FGPA cards require 2U L-type HSK and GPU shroud. The system can hold up to 3 GPUs at once with the Riser installed. The riser can support a DW GPU card while slots 1 and 4 hold a SW GPU each. This is just one type of GPU configuration the system can support. For more GPU details, please refer to the manuals below.