Dell PowerEdge T40

Description

Quick Specs

• Dell EMC PE T40 E2224,
• 24GB DDR4 RAM
• Dell EMC PowerEdge T40
• Intel Xeon E2224G
• 3.5GHz, 8M cache, 4C/4T, turbo (71W)
• 3 x 8GB 2666MT/s DDR4 ECC UDIMM
• 1x 960GB Enterprise SSD
• 8x DVD+/RW
• 9.5mm Optical Disk Drive
• 3.5″ Chassis with up to 3 Hard Drives
• No Operating System
• 1 Year Basic Warranty

The Dell EMC PowerEdge T40 is a single processor tower server meant for low-cost and low-power edge deployments. Its predecessor, the PowerEdge T30, is popular for home and SMB servers.

Dell EMC PowerEdge T40 Server Overview

The Dell EMC PowerEdge T40 is compact. It measures only 176.6 mm (6.95 inches) x 335 mm (13.18 inches) x 359.5 mm (14.15 inches.) That is a big selling point of the solution since it is small enough to place in valuable SMB offices, retail locations, and branch locations.

With this generation, you see new features such as the USB 3.1 Type-C port on the front of the chassis along with two USB 2.0 Type-A ports and a USB 3.0 port. Dell EMC is even supporting a front slim optical drive.

One key differentiator between the PowerEdge T40 and the higher-end Dell EMC PowerEdge T140 is that the T40 does not have multiple NICs nor iDRAC. One can instead see a single 10/100/1000 Ethernet NIC. For enterprises looking to manage an edge server, this means that one needs to utilize Intel AMT for remote management, not the complete iDRAC suite.

In the rear of the system, one can see the four USB 3.0 ports, two USB 2.0 ports, and audio output. There are two DisplayPorts for running things like digital signage. One also has legacy I/O such as PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports and a serial console port. For a server released in 2019, still having PS/2 built-in seems remarkably backward-looking. Peripherals have moved well beyond PS/2.

Inside one can see room for up to three 3.5″ hard drives (two on the bottom, one on the top right of the above photo.) Some of Dell EMC’s documentation says four drives are possible. There is a single 300W 80Plus Bronze PSU.

PowerEdge T40 expansion slots are:

• PCIe Gen3 x16
• Legacy PCI
• 2x PCIe Gen3 x4 through the PCH

These are limited by the Intel Xeon E-2200 series, Core i3-9100 series, and Pentium Gold series CPU architectures. We do not see legacy PCI slots often these days as that 1990’s era standard started being superseded about 15 years ago. Still, some offices use older peripheral devices that absolutely require PCI slots, so they are still around in 2019-era servers.

For RAM, we like that Dell EMC is using a full set of four DDR4 ECC DIMM slots. Given the platform, it is limited to UDIMMs instead of RDIMMs found on higher-end servers built around the 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable series.

The Dell EMC PowerEdge T40 is the first server out with the new chips, specifically the Intel Xeon E-2224G.

The PowerEdge T40 is going to be popular as its predecessor T30 because it has a solid underpinning and Dell EMC does a great job driving the platform to lower price points.