Lenovo 4XB7A08516 internal solid state drive 800 GB 2.5" PCI Express 3.0 NVMe 3D TLC NAND

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For £2,300+ ex‑VAT, this Lenovo 800GB internal NVMe SSD has to earn its keep in a pretty specific kind of environment. In practice, drives at this price point aren’t “gaming upgrade” money—they’re usually going into servers or workstation builds where you care about consistent performance, endurance, and predictable behaviour under sustained load. If you’re buying this for a production box (or a fleet) where uptime and controller reliability matter more than squeezing the last bit of $/GB, it can make sense—especially if you’re already in Lenovo hardware and want the usual “it just works” compatibility with the vendor’s storage stack.

That said, I wouldn’t buy it for most small businesses looking for simple capacity or faster boot times. For many use cases (office PCs, light virtualization, general storage, even many dev environments), you can usually get better value from consumer/prosumer NVMe or other enterprise SSDs that cost a lot less per usable performance. Unless you’ve got a clear workload that benefits from this class of drive and you’ve priced alternatives from reputable equivalents, £2300 is a lot of money to spend on internal storage. If you tell me what server/PC model it’s going into and what the workload is (VMs, databases, NAS, hypervisor, etc.), I can sanity-check whether this is the right purchase or just expensive “comfort spending.”