DELL 345-BGTF internal solid state drive 480 GB 2.5" Serial ATA III

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Honestly, I’d treat this as a “Dell-branded capacity upgrade” rather than a bargain drive. At **£1158.77 ex-VAT for 480GB**, it’s priced like a small chunk of premium storage, so you need a pretty specific reason to pay that. For most UK business use (virtualisation, general server storage, or boot drives), the value is usually much better with either higher-capacity SSDs at similar money or with enterprise-grade drives that are competitively priced for the same capacity. Unless this is coming from an approved Dell supply chain for a managed fleet, or you’ve got a strict compatibility requirement, it’s hard to see why it’s the smart buy.

Who *should* buy it: organisations already standardised on Dell hardware where keeping drive families consistent matters for support and spares management, or teams that specifically need a Dell-part number to satisfy procurement/maintenance policies. Who *shouldn’t*: anyone shopping purely on price/performance for a single server or workstation—480GB at this cost is simply not competitive. If you tell me the server model (and whether this is for boot, cache, or VM datastore), I can suggest what pricing target would make sense before you pull the trigger.