DELL 345-BFWQ internal solid state drive 1.92 TB 2.5" SAS

Product Overview

AI-generated summary

At £3025 ex-VAT for a 1.92TB 2.5" SAS SSD, this is not a “buy it because it’s an upgrade” drive—it’s a cost-conscious choice only if you *need* Dell’s specific SAS back-end and you’re buying into a particular server platform that expects this type of media. In real deployments, the value is strongest for environments where reliability, consistent performance under load, and vendor-validated storage matter more than chasing the cheapest capacity per pound. If you’re running Dell kit with SAS storage workflows (or you’ve got constraints around backplanes/cabling/firmware support), this sort of drive can be the straightforward, low-drama path.

That said, if you’re buying for general server uplift, home lab, or mixed hardware where SAS compatibility isn’t a hard requirement, I’d be cautious: this price is high enough that you should compare against cheaper enterprise SSD options available in the UK market (often with better price-per-usable-TB). Also, “internal SSD” can mean different things depending on your controller and OS tuning—so it’s worth sanity-checking that your workload actually benefits from this tier of performance/reliability. Bottom line: buy it if you’re standardising on Dell-validated SAS SSDs in a compatible Dell server and you want predictable outcomes; think twice if you just want capacity/IOPS on the cheap, because you’re paying a premium for that assurance.