DELL 345-BGNK internal solid state drive 1.6 TB 2.5" SAS

Product Overview

AI-generated summary

This is the sort of price point you only justify when you’re replacing/augmenting a specific enterprise workload where you *know* you need Dell-qualified SAS SSDs. At £3,089.42 ex-VAT for a 1.6TB drive, it’s not a “spray it around the environment” purchase—so unless it’s for a Dell server/backplane that expects this exact class of drive, you’re far more likely to find better value by using more cost-effective enterprise SSD options or even matching capacity/latency elsewhere in the same ecosystem.

Who should buy it: teams running Dell infrastructure where vendor support, compatibility, and predictable behaviour matter (e.g., databases, storage arrays, or virtualisation platforms with strict controller support). Why: you’re paying for fewer surprises, smoother integration, and typically better long-term confidence than bargain drives. Who shouldn’t: if this is for general storage expansion, lab use, or non-critical workloads, the cost-to-capacity is hard to defend—there are usually cheaper drives that deliver similar day-to-day results, especially if you don’t need SAS-specific or Dell-qualified paths.

If you can tell me what server/model it’s going into and the workload (virtualisation, RAID for storage, DB, etc.), I can sanity-check whether you’re overpaying or whether this price is actually in line for that use case.