- IT Office Moves
The Real Cost of a Poorly Managed IT Office Move
26 Jun, 2025

£1776.41 inc. VAT
AI-generated summary
Honestly, a “Dell 345-BDZG” 960GB 2.5" SATA SSD for £1480 ex‑VAT is hard to justify in 2026 unless it’s being bought into a very specific Dell server/storage ecosystem where you *must* use that exact part number (supportability, compatibility, spares programme, etc.). For most businesses, that price is in the territory where you’d usually expect either significantly better performance from a more modern class of drive, or a much cheaper route to the same capacity. If this is a general “upgrade the server boot/data drive” job, you’ll likely get better value shopping for newer drives or even different interfaces—this one smells like it’s priced for enterprise procurement rather than raw value.
Who should buy it: teams already committed to Dell-qualified hardware who need a drop-in replacement and want to avoid arguing with warranties/support, or organisations standardising on Dell internal SSDs to simplify maintenance and documentation. Who should *not* buy it: anyone planning a cost-driven storage refresh, VDI/lab workloads chasing performance, or SMBs just trying to improve reliability—at this cost you can usually do better by either moving to a more suitable SSD category or negotiating a bundle/deal. If you tell me what server/model it’s going into and the workload (boot, VM datastore, caching, general file storage), I can give you a clearer “yes” or “no” on whether this is genuinely the right spend.

Dell
Dell - Custom Kit - SSD - Mixed Use - 800 GB - 2.5" (in 3.5" carrier) - SAS 24Gb/s - for PowerEdge R540, R550, R650, R660, R6615, R6625, R750, R7525, R760, R7615, R7625, T550

Lenovo
240 GB - Solid state drive - encrypted - hot-swap - 2.5" - SATA 6Gb/s - 256-bit AES - for ThinkSystem SD530, SN850, SR530, SR550, SR570, SR590, SR650, SR850, SR860, SR950, ST550

Lenovo
Lenovo ThinkSystem Multi Vendor Entry - SSD - 480 GB - hot-swap - 2.5" - SATA 6Gb/s - for ThinkSystem SR630 V2, SR63X, SR645, SR650 V2, SR65X, SR665, SR850, ST250 V2, ST650 V2

Dell
Dell - Customer Kit - SSD - Mixed Use - 480 GB - 512e - internal - 2.5" - SATA 6Gb/s