The Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd was released a bit over three years ago when the company upgraded its PowerEdge server line from Broadwell to Xeon SP. The R740xd was an offshoot of the R740, an “extreme disk” version with more storage options. We reviewed the Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd and liked it quite a bit. In fact, we gave it our Editor’s Choice award and we use a group of eight as the backbone of nearly all our enterprise tests. Fast forward to last year and the dawn of the 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable CPU.
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