Lenovo 4XB7A13626 internal solid state drive 480 GB 3.5" Serial ATA III 3D TLC

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AI-generated summary

At £774.31 ex-VAT for a 480GB internal 3.5" SATA SSD, this feels like the wrong kind of bargain. In a lot of UK server and storage builds, you can get similar “day-to-day speed” benefits from newer, better-value SATA SSDs—or spend slightly more to jump to NVMe where the workflow difference is night and day (especially for boot, app loads, and anything with lots of small IO). Also, 3D TLC is fine, but at this price you’re paying more for the “Lenovo FRU/part” factor than for performance-per-pound, which tends to matter most when you’re scaling across multiple units.

Who should buy it? If you’re specifically maintaining a Lenovo environment where this is the approved/compatible part for a particular chassis, or you need the simplest swap with the least fuss for an existing platform, then it can be justified—because time, supportability, and compatibility are real costs. Who should avoid it? Anyone building fresh from scratch, refreshing multiple servers, or trying to maximise storage performance per budget should look for better value SATA SSDs or, ideally, NVMe options instead. If you tell me the server/model and intended use (hypervisor host, database, file server, cache, etc.), I can say more directly whether this pricing makes sense for your workload.