Lenovo 4XB7A17064 internal solid state drive 3.2 TB 2.5" SAS

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At £2,367 ex-VAT for a 3.2TB 2.5" SAS SSD, this is absolutely not a “buy it for everything” kind of drive. It’s priced like infrastructure hardware, so you’ll want a clear reason you’re using SAS rather than SATA or cheaper enterprise SATA/nearline options. If you’ve got a server/backplane that expects SAS, this can make sense—especially if reliability and vendor support matter in your environment. In day-to-day terms, you’re buying predictable performance and a sensible upgrade path for storage-constrained workloads, where an SSD tier actually moves the needle.

That said, I’d only put my money on it if your current platform is already set up for SAS and you genuinely need an enterprise-style internal SSD rather than filling gaps with a cheaper alternative. If this is for general virtualisation, file serving, or “make things feel faster” without a real storage bottleneck, the cost is hard to justify—there are usually better-value SSD options once you look at total cost per usable IOPS/latency for your specific workload. Bottom line: buy this for the right SAS-dependent servers and performance-sensitive deployments; otherwise, I’d be cautious and look at lower-cost drives that match your storage controller capabilities.