Lenovo - Storage cable kit - for 10 x 2.5" Anybay Backplane SAS/SATA Gen5

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Honestly, this looks like one of those “you’re buying peace of mind” parts rather than something you’ll ever be excited about. The Lenovo storage cable kit for a 10×2.5" AnyBay backplane is the right move if you’ve got that specific backplane already and you want the system to slot in cleanly with Lenovo’s intended cabling/layout. In real terms, you’re paying for correct fit, correct routing, and fewer surprises during build/maintenance—especially in tighter chassis where a “compatible” cable could end up being a headache.

I’d recommend it for UK reseller customers who are doing standardised deployments, refurb builds, or maintenance where time matters and you’d rather not experiment. If you’re building a one-off homelab or you’ve got existing known-good cables from the same platform, then it may be hard to justify £315.79 ex-VAT just for cables—there’s no performance upside, only convenience. Also, if your tech isn’t working specifically with that AnyBay Gen5 backplane, don’t buy it “to be safe”; storage cabling is rarely universal in practice. If you tell me the exact server/chassis model and backplane part number, I can sanity-check whether this is genuinely the correct kit.