Dell PowerEdge R7725xd — Full Technical Specifications

The line that defines this machine is the accelerator row, which reads as not applicable — the volume that would hold cards holds drives instead, and no option changes that. That row alone settles whether this chassis suits the job. The bay row then offers a conventional fast-drive layout and a ruler-format one with a far higher count; those are separate builds and separate drive estates. Note that the only controller listed is the internal boot device: data drives here are addressed directly rather than through a RAID controller, which is what software-defined storage expects and is a significant architectural assumption to check against your platform.