Lenovo 4XB7A17077 internal solid state drive 960 GB 2.5" Serial ATA III 3D TLC NAND

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For £1015 ex-VAT, a 960GB 2.5" SATA SSD is almost certainly not the bargain you’re hoping for. In real deployments, 2.5" SATA drives have been getting squeezed hard by cheaper SATA options and, more importantly, by the value of moving to NVMe for similar capacity. Unless you’ve got a very specific reason to stay on SATA—like an older chassis, a warranty/compatibility requirement, or you’re replacing a like-for-like drive in a server/storage bay that only supports SATA—this price looks out of step with what you can buy for the same money.

That said, it *can* make sense for the right buyer: organisations standardising on Lenovo parts for easier spares management, or environments where firmware/vendor validation matters (some enterprise estates like this sort of predictability). It’s also fine if the workload is mostly light/medium and “faster than HDD” is all you need—booting, VDI light-use, general office apps—without chasing maximum throughput. If you’re planning new builds, upgrades, or you’ve got NVMe-capable hardware available, I’d steer you away from this purchase and spend that budget where it moves the needle more (or at least shop hard for a better-value SSD in the same form factor).