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How to Evaluate and Switch Business Internet Providers
18 Mar, 2026

£751.84 inc. VAT
AI-generated summary
At ~£626 ex‑VAT for a 240GB 2.5" SATA SSD, this feels like a bad deal in 2026 terms. The “Lenovo part number” doesn’t change the reality that capacity is low and SATA SSDs are usually the budget lane—fine for breathing life into an older office box, but you should be paying nowhere near that for 240GB. Unless you have a very specific Lenovo-branded compatibility requirement (certain server/storage backplanes, warranty/field-replaceability rules, or an estate where only Lenovo FRUs are approved), I’d look elsewhere.
Who should buy: teams standardising parts across a Lenovo fleet where procurement insists on OEM FRUs, or where you specifically need a drop-in replacement for a known model and can’t tolerate “it should work” alternatives. Who shouldn’t: anyone buying SSDs to improve overall value—this price is far more than you’d expect for similar reliability/performance targets, so you’re effectively overpaying for small-capacity storage. In practice, I’d only proceed if you can’t source a better-value option from your usual channels, or if this is part of a pre-agreed maintenance contract where cost is secondary to compliance.

Lenovo
Lenovo ThinkSystem S4520 - SSD - Read Intensive - 480 GB - internal - 3.5" LFF - SATA 6Gb/s - for ThinkSystem ST50 7Y48 (3.5"), 7Y49 (3.5")

Dell
Dell - Customer Kit - SSD - Read Intensive - 1.92 TB - hot-swap - 2.5" - SAS 24Gb/s

HP
HP Z Turbo Drive Kit - SSD - encrypted - 512 GB - internal - M.2 2280 - PCIe 4.0 x4 - Self-Encrypting Drive (SED), TCG Opal Encryption 2.0 - for Workstation Z4 G5

Lenovo
Intel P4510 Entry - SSD - 4 TB - hot-swap - 2.5" - U.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 (NVMe) - for ThinkAgile VX Certified Node 7Y94, 7Z12, ThinkSystem SR850 V2, SR860 V2