- VoIP & Phone Systems
Understanding VoIP Bandwidth Requirements for Your Business
18 Mar, 2026

£751.84 inc. VAT
AI-generated summary
At ~£626 ex‑VAT for a 240 GB 3.5" SATA SSD, this is a tough sell in 2026. The main issue isn’t that it’s “bad” — Lenovo builds solid kit — it’s that the price is so out of line with what you can get from mainstream SATA/SAS SSDs and even entry-level enterprise drives. For most UK B2B deployments, you’d expect this sort of money to buy far more capacity or a more modern interface, and the value proposition just isn’t there.
**Who should buy it:** only if you’re maintaining a specific Lenovo server/storage design that explicitly needs this exact part and you’ve got no flexibility on form factor/controller compatibility. In that scenario, paying a premium for “works first time” can be worth it. **Who should avoid it:** anyone buying SSDs for general server workloads, VDI caching, or boot drives where you can choose alternatives—because at this cost, you’re paying for brand/part number rather than performance-per-pound. If you tell me the device/server model it’s going into, I can sanity-check whether this is one of those “it must be this” situations or whether you’re better off shopping around.

Lenovo
Lenovo - SSD - 800 GB - hot-swap - 2.5" - SAS - for Storage D1224 4587

Dell
Dell - SSD - Read Intensive - 3.84 TB - hot-swap - 2.5" - SATA 6Gb/s - for PowerEdge C6420 (2.5")

Samsung
Samsung 990 PRO MZ-V9P4T0GW - SSD - encrypted - 4 TB - internal - M.2 2280 - PCIe 4.0 x4 (NVMe) - 256-bit AES - TCG Opal Encryption 2.0 - integrated heatsink

Kingston
Kingston Data Center DC2000B - SSD - Enterprise - 240 GB - internal - M.2 2280 - PCIe 4.0 x4 (NVMe)