Dell PowerEdge R750 8-Bay 2.5"

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1 Processor Required
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CPU (2x included in build)
Component Guide Processor. This step works in two passes. Pick a processor tier first, then the CPU that fits your workload and licensing.

Step 1: Choose a tier

Xeon Silver (4300 series) is the value tier: solid dual-socket compute for general duty, with memory running at 2666 MT/s.

Xeon Gold (5300 and 6300 series) is the mainstream of this platform and our default recommendation: more cores, higher clocks, and faster memory support, 2933 MT/s on the 5300s and the full 3200 MT/s on the 6300s.

Xeon Platinum (8300 series) runs up to 40 cores per socket, 80 in the chassis. It exists for dense consolidation and licensing arithmetic at scale; most R750 buyers do not need it, and we will say so when that is true.

One connection worth knowing before you pick: your processor tier sets your memory speed. The DIMMs in the memory step run at whatever your CPU supports, so a Silver chip quietly caps the memory bus you paid for. It is one of the honest arguments for Gold.

Whichever tier you pick, populate both sockets; half the memory channels and PCIe lanes route through the second CPU.

Step 2: Choose your CPU

Running Windows Server? Two 8-core CPUs land exactly on the 16-core base license, and our pick is the Gold 6334 (8 cores, 3.6 GHz): top clocks per core, full 3200 memory speed, nothing wasted on the license.

Virtualizing on vSphere? VMware licenses a 16-core minimum per socket, so the 8-core strategy buys you nothing there; take 16-core parts like the Gold 6326 and use every core you are paying to license.

General consolidation lands in the middle Golds, and dense VM farms climb toward the high-core 6300s and Platinums.

Not sure where your workload lands? We configure these daily; call 1-800-778-1545.
2 Heat Sink Optional
Component Guide Heat Sink. The R750 offers two cooling configurations, and the right one follows directly from your processor and drive choices.

The standard heatsinks ship with every build and cover the Silver and mainstream Gold range in normal datacenter conditions. If that describes your configuration, there is nothing to add here.

The high-performance fans and heatsinks are the upgrade, and we spec them in three cases. First, top-TDP silicon: the high-core Golds and Platinums run hot enough that Dell requires the upgraded cooling. Second, NVMe-heavy builds: a backplane full of NVMe drives adds real heat directly in the airflow path. Third, warm environments: intake air above the mid-20s Celsius tightens the thermal math, and server closets without dedicated cooling get there more often than people expect.

If you are unsure which side of the line your build falls on, err toward the upgrade; the cost is small against this chassis, and cooler components last longer and throttle never.

As always: keep every drive blank and shroud installed, because the R750 cools front to back and an open path lets air skip the components that need it. GPU builds change the whole thermal picture, so call 1-800-778-1545 before checkout and we will confirm the configuration end to end.
3 Memory (RAM) 32 DIMM slots, modules added in sets of 2 Required
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Component Guide Memory. The R750's memory system is one of the platform's real upgrades: eight memory channels per socket, double what the 14th generation offered, with DDR4 speeds up to 3200 MT/s.

Two rules shape the buy.

First, your processor sets the speed. Silver CPUs run memory at 2666 MT/s, Gold 5300s at 2933, and Gold 6300s and up at the full 3200. The configurator pairs the right DIMMs with your chip; just know that the memory bus is one of the things you are buying when you step up a CPU tier.

Second, populate channels evenly. Sixteen matched DIMMs, eight per socket, engages every channel once at full bandwidth, and that is our default for this chassis. Memory bandwidth is exactly what virtualization hosts and databases feel, and sixteen channels of it is the R750's quiet superpower.

Go beyond sixteen when capacity demands it; the platform takes a second DIMM per channel gracefully. Below sixteen, use multiples of eight and keep both sockets even; a lopsided population starves channels you paid for.

Whichever count you choose, buy it as one matched set, now. Hunting for matching DIMMs a year into production means a maintenance window and rank-matching roulette, and a mismatch clocks the whole bank down.

Common landing spots: 128 GB (16x 8 GB) for general duty, 256 GB (16x 16 GB) is our default virtualization host, 512 GB (16x 32 GB) for database work, and 1 TB (32x 32 GB) when the workload lives in RAM.
4 RAID Controllers Optional
Dell 15th Gen RAID Controllers - R750
Component Guide RAID. These are Dell's PERC 11 controllers, a genuine generational step up in cache and throughput, and the workload makes the choice.

PERC H745 (4 GB cache) is the configurator default and our pick for most builds: a large battery-backed cache, full RAID levels, and throughput that keeps a busy backplane honest.

PERC H755 (8 GB cache) is the step up for write-heavy duty on a loaded chassis: big parity arrays, database volumes, and backplanes that stay busy. On a 16 or 24 bay build doing real work, the difference shows.

PERC H755N is the specialist: it brings hardware RAID to NVMe drives, which historically ran unprotected or leaned on software. If your build is NVMe-based and you want the array managed in hardware, this is the controller that does it.

PERC H345 is the entry option for boot mirrors and light RAID duty; honest for a SAN-attached host whose local storage is just the OS pair, and not for parity arrays you care about.

PERC H355 sits just above it for simple RAID 1/10 duty.

Building vSAN, Storage Spaces Direct, Ceph, or ZFS? Those stacks want direct drive access through an HBA rather than a RAID controller; call 1-800-778-1545 and we will spec the HBA355 for that build.

Array guidance regardless of controller: RAID 10 where write latency matters, RAID 6 over RAID 5 on large spinning drives, and a hot spare on any array whose rebuild you would rather not race.
5 Storage Drives Select up to 8 drives (0/8 Slots Used) Optional
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Drive trays are included and matched to your chassis automatically

Component Guide Drive. Drives are the number one failure point on any server, so this decision deserves more attention than the spec sheet suggests.

The 2.5" R750 takes the full modern menu: NVMe for the lowest latency, SAS and SATA SSDs for mainstream flash duty, and 10K SAS spinning drives where capacity per dollar still matters. Our guidance by workload: NVMe when storage latency is the product (busy databases, heavy virtualization datastores), SATA or SAS SSDs for general flash duty where they remain the value play, and a tiered mix, flash up front, spindles behind, when the budget has to cover both speed and bulk.

Buy new. We steer you away from refurbished on drives specifically, and we say that as a company that sells refurbished servers all day. The chassis, board, and power supplies in a refurbished R750 have proven themselves through our burn-in; a used drive with unknown hours is a different bet, and a rebuild is exactly when you do not want to lose a second one.

Boot the right way: the BOSS card in the Add-Ons step carries a mirrored pair of M.2 drives dedicated to the operating system, keeping every front bay for data and separating a boot failure from a data failure permanently. It is standard practice on this platform and we recommend it on every build.

Fair warning on capacity math: RAID overhead, hot spares, and filesystem headroom mean usable space lands well under the sum of the labels. Size for the usable number, and when in doubt, one drive size up is cheap insurance.
6 Remote Access Required
Component Guide Remote Access. The R750 ships with iDRAC9, the best out-of-band management Dell has built, and the license determines what you can do with it.

The dividing line is the remote console. iDRAC9 Enterprise gives you remote KVM and virtual media through a clean HTML5 interface: reach the server's screen, mount an ISO, and rebuild an OS from anywhere, even when the operating system is down. The lower tiers leave you walking to the rack for any problem below the OS.

Enterprise is the configurator default and our pick, and on a server bought for production virtualization or database duty the math is short: the license costs a fraction of one emergency site visit, and the first bad firmware day pays for it.

Enterprise also brings the fleet features that matter as you grow: automated firmware updates, telemetry streaming, and secure erase for the day the server retires holding company data.

Skip it only when the server sits down the hall and someone can physically reach it without ceremony, and even then, think about whether that stays true for the machine's whole life.

If you are deploying 5 or more units, take Enterprise on all of them. Fleet management without remote console access does not work in practice.
7 Power Supply 2x included in build Required
Component Guide Power Supply. Every option here is a dual hot-swap redundant pair, so redundancy and serviceability are already handled. The only decision is wattage.

2x 800W is the configurator default and covers mainstream builds: Silver or mid-Gold processors, a sensible memory load, and a bay of SSDs land inside it with room to work.

2x 1400W is our pick the moment the build fills out: high-TDP Gold or Platinum silicon, a full NVMe backplane, all thirty-two DIMM slots, or a loaded spinning-disk chassis. The price step is small and it buys the 50 percent load target, where a PSU runs at peak efficiency, runs cooler, and lasts longer than one working near its limit.

2x 2400W exists for the heavy end: GPU configurations and maximum builds. If accelerators are in your plans, talk to us before checkout; GPUs change the power and airflow picture together.

Watch the estimated TDP counter at the bottom of the page as you add components to see where your build lands, and when it sits between two tiers, size up; the price difference is a rounding error against the efficiency and headroom you get back.
8 Network Cards Required
Component Guide Network Card. The R750 uses the OCP 3.0 mezzanine slot for its primary network card, the modern successor to Dell's daughter cards: it does not consume a PCIe slot, and cards slide out for service without opening the chassis. Two decisions: speed and port type.

Quad 1 GbE covers file, print, and light application duty, and it is the honest budget answer when the clients are desktops on gigabit switching.

10 Gb is the floor the moment this server hosts a busy hypervisor, shared storage, or backup traffic on a deadline, and most R750s are exactly that server. The dual and quad 10 Gb options, and 25 Gb where the switching exists, are what this platform's sixteen memory channels and PCIe Gen4 lanes deserve; a modern build bottlenecked at gigabit is a mismatch you feel daily.

Then port type, and this is the one that catches people. SFP+/SFP28 ports take fiber or DAC cables and talk to datacenter-grade switches. BASE-T ports are 10 Gb copper on ordinary RJ45. Neither is better; they must simply match your switch. Order SFP against a copper-only switch and the server racks up with nothing to plug into.

Need more ports, or separate links for storage and VM traffic? PCIe network cards stack on top of whatever you choose here. Call 1-800-778-1545 and we will spec the whole path, switch ports included.
9 Operating System Required
Operating System
Component Guide Operating System. We install, license, and burn-in test your OS before shipping, so the server arrives ready to join the network.

The good news on this platform: the R750 is current enough that every modern OS supports it fully, so the choice is about your environment, not compatibility.

Windows Server 2022 is the mainstream pick, and Windows Server 2025 is fully supported here if you want the newest platform. Licensing is per core with a 16-core base, which is why our processor guidance steers Windows buyers to two 8-core CPUs: the 16-Core license covers that build exactly. Past 16 total cores, you need the larger license tiers, and heavy VM density is where Datacenter edition with unlimited virtualization rights earns its keep. On CALs, count your users and round up.

Fair warning on Evaluation Editions: free and fully functional for 180 days, then they expire. Right for labs and proof-of-concept, wrong for production.

VMware ESXi is fully supported on this platform, and for shops standing on vSphere the R750 is a first-class host; we will install the version your cluster runs.

Proxmox VE is our quiet favorite for new virtualization deployments: open-source KVM with clustering and live migration, no per-core license math, and it makes full use of this hardware.

Ubuntu Server LTS covers Linux application duty with five years of free updates, and No OS is there for teams imaging from their own deployment infrastructure.

Not sure which fits? Tell us the workload at quote time, or call 1-800-778-1545.

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Dell PowerEdge R750 8-Bay 2.5" Drives [15th Gen] Detailed Review

The Dell PowerEdge R750 8-Bay 2.5" is the compute-dense configuration of Dell's 15th gen 2U platform: eight 2.5" hot-swap front bays, dual 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable sockets (Ice Lake-SP, LGA-4189), the full 32 DDR4-3200 DIMM slots, and PCIe Gen4 throughout. It is the same 2U chassis and the same Ice Lake platform as the 16-Bay flagship, with a smaller front storage footprint. You give up bays you were not going to fill and keep every bit of the compute, memory, and PCIe expansion that makes the R750 worth buying.

The 8-Bay is the right call when the workload is compute-bound or memory-bound rather than storage-bound: virtualization hosts that keep their data on shared storage, application and database tiers backed by a SAN or NVMe-oF target, and scale-out nodes where eight local drives is the correct per-node disk count. Where most of a deployment's data lives off-box, paying for sixteen empty bays is wasted spend; the 8-Bay gives the same platform at a lower entry point.

To configure an R750 8-Bay build, call 1-800-778-1545 or request a quote through the form on this page. We respond within 24 hours, and volume pricing applies at 5 units and up. Every unit ships after a 12+ hour burn-in across every memory channel, PCIe slot, and drive bay, backed by our standard 180-day warranty.


When 8 Bays Is the Right Storage Footprint

The R750 is a 2U platform that scales to 16 or 24 front bays, so an 8-Bay configuration is a deliberate choice, not a limitation. It is the correct choice in three common patterns:

  • Compute and memory are the constraint, not local storage. A virtualization host with VMs on a vSAN cluster's other nodes, an iSCSI/FC SAN, or an NVMe-oF target needs CPU cores, RAM, and network bandwidth, not sixteen local drives. Eight bays cover the OS, local scratch, and a modest local datastore.
  • All-NVMe at a sensible per-node count. Eight PCIe Gen4 NVMe drives is a clean, high-performance local flash set for databases and latency-sensitive applications, without the cost of a 24-NVMe backplane that the workload would not saturate.
  • Scale-out nodes where eight drives is the design. Many Ceph, object-storage, and HCI reference architectures specify a fixed small drive count per node and scale by adding nodes. The 8-Bay matches that design directly.

If the workload is storage-bound rather than compute-bound, the larger-footprint chassis are the better fit: the R750 16-Bay 2.5" for mid-density SFF, the R750 24-Bay 2.5" for maximum-density NVMe, or the R750 12-Bay 3.5" for LFF capacity drives.


Storage - 8 SFF Bays

Eight 2.5" hot-swap front bays. The R750 8-Bay is offered with either a SAS/SATA backplane or an NVMe-capable backplane carrying up to eight PCIe Gen4 NVMe drives direct-attached. Specify which at quote time; the two backplanes are not interchangeable in the field, so the storage interface is a procurement-time decision.

Common 8-Bay configurations we see in production:

  • 8 x SAS SSD (mixed-use, 1-3 DWPD): Production database and write-intensive application storage. PERC H755 with 8 GB flash-backed cache, RAID 10 for write-heavy workloads or RAID 6 where read balance matters.
  • 8 x PCIe Gen4 NVMe: The latency-sensitive all-flash configuration. Direct-attach NVMe presented to the OS or fronted by software-defined storage. The right call for high-transaction databases and NVMe-oF participants.
  • 8 x SAS/SATA SSD boot-and-scratch with SAN-backed data: For virtualization hosts whose VM data lives on shared storage. Local drives carry the OS, swap, and local scratch only.

For all-NVMe vSAN ESA at higher drive counts, the 24-Bay 2.5" is the correct chassis. For LFF capacity drives, the 12-Bay 3.5" is the correct chassis.

Boot - BOSS-S2

The R750 ships with the BOSS-S2 module in a dedicated chassis slot. BOSS-S2 carries two M.2 NVMe drives in hardware RAID 1, hot-pluggable from the rear, and keeps all eight front bays available for data. On an 8-Bay chassis, where each front bay is a larger share of the total, dedicating a front bay to boot is a real cost; BOSS-S2 is the standard recommendation and we configure it on essentially every R750 we ship.


Storage Controllers

  • PERC H755 (8 GB flash-backed cache): Our production recommendation for SAS/SATA storage with write workloads. Flash-backed cache means no battery replacement cycle. RAID 0/1/5/6/10/50/60.
  • PERC H745 (4 GB flash-backed cache): Mid-tier alternative for mixed or read-dominant SAS/SATA workloads where the H755's larger cache is not justified.
  • PERC H355/H345: Entry-tier RAID for cost-sensitive SAS/SATA configurations. RAID 0/1/10 only; these controllers do not do RAID 5/6. If you need parity RAID, the H755 or H745 is required.
  • HBA355i (pass-through): For vSAN OSA pass-through, Ceph, ZFS, and any software-defined storage stack that manages its own redundancy. Presents drives directly with no RAID controller in the data path.
  • S150 software RAID: Chipset-level software RAID for very entry-tier configurations only. Not a production recommendation.

Note that direct-attach NVMe on the 8-Bay NVMe backplane runs off the CPU PCIe lanes, not under a PERC; RAID across NVMe drives in that configuration is handled in software or by the application.


Processors

Dual 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable (Ice Lake-SP), LGA-4189 socket. The 8-Bay R750 supports the full Ice Lake SKU stack identically to the 16-Bay, up to the top-bin Platinum 8380 at 40 cores and 270W TDP per socket, for 80 cores across two sockets in 2U. The smaller drive footprint does not change the compute envelope; the 2U thermal design handles high-TDP Ice Lake more comfortably than the 1U R650.

Common SKU choices we see in deployment:

  • Gold 6338 (32 cores, 2.0 GHz, 205W): The volume balanced-performance Ice Lake. Strong core count without the Platinum cost premium. The default for most virtualization and general-purpose 8-Bay builds.
  • Gold 6330 (28 cores, 2.0 GHz, 205W): Slightly lower core count, same TDP envelope. A small per-unit saving that adds up at quantity.
  • Silver 4314 (16 cores, 2.4 GHz, 135W): Lower-TDP, fewer-cores option for cost-primary builds where 32 dual-socket cores is more than enough. Reduces power and thermal load.
  • Platinum 8380 (40 cores, 2.3 GHz, 270W): Maximum-core dual-socket Ice Lake. Requires high-performance Gold-grade cooling and the 1400W or 2400W PSU tier.

Mixed-SKU configurations are not supported. Both sockets must carry matching CPUs for dual-socket operation.


Memory

32 DDR4 DIMM slots: 16 per CPU, 2 DIMMs per channel, 8 memory channels per socket. The 8-Bay carries the full 32-slot memory topology; this is a key reason to choose it over the single-socket-optimized R750xs, which has 16 slots. DDR4-3200 at 1 DPC; speeds step down to 2933 at 2 DPC on most Gold and Platinum SKUs.

Maximum supported memory:

  • 4 TB RDIMM with 32 x 128 GB RDIMMs (most common high-capacity configuration).
  • 8 TB LRDIMM with 32 x 256 GB LRDIMMs (specialty large-memory deployments).
  • 8 TB combined DDR4 + Optane PMem 200 series using 16 PMem modules alongside 16 DDR4 DIMMs in App Direct or Memory mode. Optane PMem support is one of the R750's differentiators over the value-tier 15th gen lineup.

For most 8-Bay deployments, 256 GB to 1 TB covers the workload. Reserve 2 TB+ for in-memory databases or high-density VDI.


Networking and PCIe Expansion

One OCP 3.0 mezzanine slot plus the PCIe Gen4 expansion slots for add-in NICs. Because the 8-Bay carries no rear drive cage in its standard configuration, it keeps the full rear riser budget free for expansion cards. For 2U production workloads, 25 GbE is the standard recommendation; a fully-loaded R750 can saturate 10 GbE under concurrent load.

  • Dual-port 25 GbE SFP28 (OCP 3.0): Standard for production R750 deployments. Broadcom BCM57414 and Mellanox/NVIDIA ConnectX-5 variants both qualified.
  • Dual-port 100 GbE QSFP28: For vSAN backend traffic, NVMe-oF participants, and data-ingest-heavy nodes.
  • Quad-port 10 GbE SFP+ or quad-port 1 GbE RJ45: Network segmentation, dedicated storage/management VLANs, and lower-bandwidth deployments.

PCIe Gen4 bandwidth is double Gen3 per lane (32 GB/s at x16). Gen3 cards run in Gen4 slots at Gen3 speed.


GPU Support

The 8-Bay R750 is a viable GPU host: with no rear drive cage consuming riser space, the standard 8-slot riser configuration supports up to three double-width GPUs (NVIDIA A100, or H100/L40 on the power-capable slots with the required 450W cabling and high-performance fans) or up to eight single-width GPUs (L4 / T4 / A2) for multi-tenant inference and transcoding. High-TDP GPU configurations require the 1400W or 2400W PSU tier and silver- or gold-grade fans. For dedicated GPU density beyond three double-width cards, the R750xa GPU-specialist variant is the right platform; Wholesale Servers does not currently stock the R750xa, so contact us to discuss sourcing.


Management - iDRAC9 (15th Gen)

iDRAC9 Enterprise is required for production. The 15th gen iDRAC9 adds improved NVMe monitoring at Gen4 speeds, GPU health integration, Active Health System v3, and Secured Component Verification (factory cryptographic identity binding parts to the chassis). TPM 2.0 standard. Silicon Root of Trust at boot. iDRAC Direct via front-panel micro-USB for at-the-rack management. Live BIOS scanning, configuration drift detection, recovery boot images, and System Lockdown mode round out the 15th gen security baseline.


Power and Cooling

The 8-Bay shares the R750 PSU envelope: 800W, 1100W, 1400W, 1800W, and 2400W Platinum or Titanium hot-plug redundant. There is no 600W option (that is R650xs-specific). Both PSUs must match; mixed wattages are not supported, so size for peak load at procurement.

Workload Profile Typical Draw PSU Recommendation
Light: single populated socket, modest memory, no GPU 200-300W 2 x 800W Platinum redundant
Balanced: dual Gold CPU, 512 GB-1 TB memory, 8 SSDs, no GPU 350-600W 2 x 1100W Platinum redundant
Heavy: dual Platinum CPU, large memory, 1-3 GPUs 800-1700W 2 x 1800W or 2400W Titanium redundant

Cooling uses up to six fans in standard, high-performance silver, or high-performance gold tiers. Top-bin CPUs and GPU configurations require silver- or gold-grade fans; fan tiers cannot be mixed within a chassis.


Physical Specs & Platform Notes

  • Form factor: 2U rack, standard 19" rack-mount.
  • Chassis depth: 28.17 inches (715.5 mm). Verify rack depth supports this; some short-depth racks will not.
  • PCIe expansion: Up to 8 PCIe Gen4 slots via the riser options, with the full riser budget available since the standard 8-Bay carries no rear drive cage.
  • Parts availability: Strong. The R750 is current-production at Dell with active ProSupport; PERC H755/H745, BOSS-S2, OCP 3.0 NICs, PSUs, and rails are all readily sourced.
  • Accessories we recommend: BOSS-S2 for boot, the ReadyRails sliding rail kit, an optional cable management arm, and the optional LCD security bezel.
  • Platform notes: SAS/SATA vs NVMe backplane is a build-time decision; fan tier must match CPU and GPU selection; both PSUs must match wattage.

Our Assessment

Where it excels: the 8-Bay R750 is the right buy when the workload needs the full Ice Lake platform - 80 cores, 4 TB+ memory, Optane PMem, PCIe Gen4 expansion, optional GPUs - but does not need a large local drive count. Compute-dense virtualization hosts with shared storage, database and application tiers fronted by a SAN or NVMe-oF target, all-NVMe latency-sensitive nodes at a sensible drive count, and fixed-small-drive scale-out designs all map to it cleanly.

Where to look instead: if local storage is the point, move up the family - the R750 16-Bay 2.5" for mid-density SFF, the R750 24-Bay 2.5" for maximum-density NVMe and vSAN ESA, or the R750 12-Bay 3.5" for LFF capacity. If the workload is genuinely single-socket, the R750xs 8-Bay trades half the memory topology for a lower entry cost. If a 1U footprint is acceptable and PCIe expansion is not needed, the R650 8-Bay is the more compact, lower-cost option.

Bottom line: buy the 8-Bay R750 when you want the whole 15th gen 2U platform and a modest, fast local drive set. It is the cost-correct R750 for compute- and memory-bound workloads whose data mostly lives elsewhere.


Honest Limitations

  • Eight bays is a hard ceiling on local capacity. If a deployment grows into needing more local drives, the chassis backplane does not expand; you are buying a 16-Bay or 24-Bay instead. Size honestly at procurement.
  • SAS/SATA and NVMe backplanes are not field-interchangeable. Decide the storage interface at quote time. Switching later is a backplane swap, not a drive swap.
  • Chassis depth is non-trivial. At 28+ inches, short-depth racks will not accommodate it. Verify rack depth before ordering.
  • GPU support is configuration-dependent. The standard no-rear-drive 8-Bay supports GPUs, but high-TDP cards require the 1400W/2400W PSU tier, high-performance fans, and dedicated power cabling.
  • Mixed PSU wattages are not supported. Both PSUs must match; plan for the maximum-load tier up front.
  • Optane PMem 200 series is supported but end-of-life. Intel discontinued Optane in 2022; existing deployments are serviceable, but new memory-tiering architectures should target CXL on 16th gen instead.
  • Single-socket Ice Lake is supported but uneconomic here. If single-socket is the right answer, the R750xs is the cost-correct platform with a smaller memory topology and lower PSU envelope.

Workload Fit

Right for ✅ Consider alternatives for ❌
✅ Compute-dense virtualization with shared storage ❌ Storage-bound nodes needing many local drives (use R750 16-Bay or 24-Bay)
✅ All-NVMe latency-sensitive databases at 8 drives ❌ All-NVMe vSAN ESA at scale (use R750 24-Bay)
✅ Application/database tiers backed by SAN or NVMe-oF ❌ LFF capacity / NAS / archive (use R750 12-Bay 3.5")
✅ Fixed small-drive scale-out (Ceph, HCI, object) ❌ Single-socket-optimized economics (use R750xs)
✅ Dual-socket compute needing 4 TB+ memory or Optane ❌ 1U footprint with no PCIe expansion need (use R650)
✅ Up to 3 double-width GPUs in 2U ❌ DDR5 / Sapphire Rapids / PCIe Gen5 required (use R760)

Where to Look Instead

  • More local SFF storage: R750 16-Bay 2.5", the canonical mid-density configuration.
  • Maximum-density NVMe / vSAN ESA: R750 24-Bay 2.5".
  • LFF capacity drives: R750 12-Bay 3.5".
  • Single-socket economics: R750xs 8-Bay.
  • 1U same-generation platform: R650 8-Bay.
  • Prior-generation budget option: the 14th gen R740 16-Bay for shorter-lifecycle or cost-primary procurement. The 16th gen R760 (Sapphire Rapids, DDR5, PCIe Gen5) is the step-up when the workload genuinely needs it.

Ready to Configure?

Tell us your workload, storage interface (SAS/SATA or NVMe), memory target, GPU requirements if any, drive count and capacity, and quantity. We respond within 24 hours. Volume pricing applies at 5 units and above.

Every Wholesale Servers R750 ships after a 12+ hour burn-in test covering every PCIe slot, every memory channel, and every drive bay. Standard 180-day warranty included; 1-Year, 2-Year, and 3-Year Premium warranty options available. Call 1-800-778-1545 or use the quote form on this page.

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Choosing Memory for Your Dell PowerEdge R750

The R750's memory system is one of the platform's real upgrades: eight memory channels per socket, double what the 14th generation offered, with DDR4 speeds up to 3200 MT/s. Two rules shape the buy. First, your processor sets the speed. Silver CPUs run memory at 2666 MT/s, Gold 5300s at 2933, and Gold 6300s and up at the full 3200. The configurator pairs the right DIMMs with your chip; just know that the memory bus is one of the things you are buying when you step up a CPU tier. Second, populate channels evenly. Sixteen matched DIMMs, eight per socket, engages every channel once at full bandwidth, and that is our default for this chassis. Memory bandwidth is exactly what virtualization hosts and databases feel, and sixteen channels of it is the R750's quiet superpower. Go beyond sixteen when capacity demands it; the platform takes a second DIMM per channel gracefully. Below sixteen, use multiples of eight and keep both sockets even; a lopsided population starves channels you paid for. Whichever count you choose, buy it as one matched set, now. Hunting for matching DIMMs a year into production means a maintenance window and rank-matching roulette, and a mismatch clocks the whole bank down. Common landing spots: 128 GB (16x 8 GB) for general duty, 256 GB (16x 16 GB) is our default virtualization host, 512 GB (16x 32 GB) for database work, and 1 TB (32x 32 GB) when the workload lives in RAM.

Choosing Your iDRAC License

The R750 ships with iDRAC9, the best out-of-band management Dell has built, and the license determines what you can do with it. The dividing line is the remote console. iDRAC9 Enterprise gives you remote KVM and virtual media through a clean HTML5 interface: reach the server's screen, mount an ISO, and rebuild an OS from anywhere, even when the operating system is down. The lower tiers leave you walking to the rack for any problem below the OS. Enterprise is the configurator default and our pick, and on a server bought for production virtualization or database duty the math is short: the license costs a fraction of one emergency site visit, and the first bad firmware day pays for it. Enterprise also brings the fleet features that matter as you grow: automated firmware updates, telemetry streaming, and secure erase for the day the server retires holding company data. Skip it only when the server sits down the hall and someone can physically reach it without ceremony, and even then, think about whether that stays true for the machine's whole life. If you are deploying 5 or more units, take Enterprise on all of them. Fleet management without remote console access does not work in practice.

Choosing Your R750 Power Supply

Every option here is a dual hot-swap redundant pair, so redundancy and serviceability are already handled. The only decision is wattage. 2x 800W is the configurator default and covers mainstream builds: Silver or mid-Gold processors, a sensible memory load, and a bay of SSDs land inside it with room to work. 2x 1400W is our pick the moment the build fills out: high-TDP Gold or Platinum silicon, a full NVMe backplane, all thirty-two DIMM slots, or a loaded spinning-disk chassis. The price step is small and it buys the 50 percent load target, where a PSU runs at peak efficiency, runs cooler, and lasts longer than one working near its limit. 2x 2400W exists for the heavy end: GPU configurations and maximum builds. If accelerators are in your plans, talk to us before checkout; GPUs change the power and airflow picture together. Watch the estimated TDP counter at the bottom of the page as you add components to see where your build lands, and when it sits between two tiers, size up; the price difference is a rounding error against the efficiency and headroom you get back.

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Click the Add to Quote button at the bottom of your screen to save your design as a draft order for future reference and to check for discounts, lead time, and availability. Most servers ship within 1-3 days.