Dell EMC PowerEdge R240 w/ Intel Xeon E-2144G 3.6GHz and 8GB DDR4 - $250 BO accepted

[Quartermaster]

From our wonderful friends at Minos Technology: Dell EMC PowerEdge R240 w/ Intel Xeon E-2144G 3.6GHz and 8GB DDR4 **TESTED** | eBay

My offer of $250 was accepted. $15 shipping fee on top for a total of $265. It does not appear to include rails, however these can be found cheaply on eBay or can be substituted with generic rails.

These boxes unofficially support 32GB DDR4 ECC UDIMMs in four slots for a total of 128GB of RAM possible. You can also swap the CPU with a E-2278 that will work with the stock heatsink, to avoid needing to source the higher 95W TDP heatsink.

3 left in stock at the time of posting this. I hope someone is able to grab a good deal

 

[BackupProphet]

That is a good deal, though I think these are super noisy when you add third party hardware to it.
The r210 ii was super quiet and idled at just 20w. If this one is similar, it would make an excellent firewall/router box.

 

[marcoi]

no longer taking the 250 BO. I just tried for one.

 

[Samir]

no longer taking the 250 BO. I just tried for one.

The STH Effect™ strikes again!

 

[Markess]

The STH Effect™ strikes again!

And......gone. At least this batch

 

[jcpingu]

Any advice on cheap ECC RAM for the unit? What are you guys using?

 

[jcpingu]

Is there any good options for RAM? I can't seem to find anything that does not seems ridiculous to me. Can anyone advise what Ram you are using and price paid? If anybody knows any good deal, can you also post a link? Thanks much...

 

[fohdeesha]

Is there any good options for RAM? I can't seem to find anything that does not seems ridiculous to me. Can anyone advise what Ram you are using and price paid? If anybody knows any good deal, can you also post a link? Thanks much...

unless I'm missing something it's just regular ddr4 registered or unregistered ecc, spec sheet says 4 dimm slots and a max of 64gb: Dell EMC PowerEdge R240 Technical Specifications Guide | Dell US

so you can max out its capacity out for 60 bucks Micron 16GB DDR4 2666 MHz ECC REG RDIMM Server RAM 1Rx4 - MTA18ASF2G72PZ-2G6 | eBay

 

[Netwerkz101]

unless I'm missing something it's just regular ddr4 registered or unregistered ecc, spec sheet says 4 dimm slots and a max of 64gb: Dell EMC PowerEdge R240 Technical Specifications Guide | Dell US

so you can max out its capacity out for 60 bucks Micron 16GB DDR4 2666 MHz ECC REG RDIMM Server RAM 1Rx4 - MTA18ASF2G72PZ-2G6 | eBay

Latest BIOS should support:
Capable of running 4x 32GB ECC UDIMM for 128GB Total RAM.
example module: MTA18ADF4G72AZ-2G6B2

 

[fohdeesha]

Latest BIOS should support:
Capable of running 4x 32GB ECC UDIMM for 128GB Total RAM.
example module: MTA18ADF4G72AZ-2G6B2

interesting, you'd think they would update their system guide, dell is usually pretty good about that

 

[Quartermaster]

Latest BIOS should support:
Capable of running 4x 32GB ECC UDIMM for 128GB Total RAM.
example module: MTA18ADF4G72AZ-2G6B2

128GB works fine, I have several R240 and R340 systems running this configuration

interesting, you'd think they would update their system guide, dell is usually pretty good about that

A couple of reasons this was not done:

The R240 & R340 (they share the same platform) were 'technically capable' at launch but was not certified to be 'officially supported' to avoid overlap with the R440, to avoid scenarios of buyers selecting the R240 or R340 when they should be going for the R440 for performance/scaling reasons (Source: Used to work for Dell at the time the Rx40 series was launched, and asked the R240/R340 product manager about it).

The Rx40 series is now -almost- 3 generations old, outside of BIOS/firmware maintenance updates, there's no resource/engineering dollars put behind them to do any certifcation work.

 

[jcpingu]

unless I'm missing something it's just regular ddr4 registered or unregistered ecc, spec sheet says 4 dimm slots and a max of 64gb: Dell EMC PowerEdge R240 Technical Specifications Guide | Dell US

so you can max out its capacity out for 60 bucks Micron 16GB DDR4 2666 MHz ECC REG RDIMM Server RAM 1Rx4 - MTA18ASF2G72PZ-2G6 | eBay

Thank you for your reply. Am I missing something? I thought the R240 does not support RDIMM. It only supports ECC UDIMM. Am I wrong? Can you please confirm? Thanks

 

[cw823]

unless I'm missing something it's just regular ddr4 registered or unregistered ecc, spec sheet says 4 dimm slots and a max of 64gb: Dell EMC PowerEdge R240 Technical Specifications Guide | Dell US

so you can max out its capacity out for 60 bucks Micron 16GB DDR4 2666 MHz ECC REG RDIMM Server RAM 1Rx4 - MTA18ASF2G72PZ-2G6 | eBay

You are definitely missing the fact that these will not accept RDIMM.

 

[jcpingu]

Yes, however, the link you posted is RDIMM… isn’t it?