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The SME Guide to Network Monitoring and Management
10 Mar, 2026
£745.86 inc. VAT
AI-generated summary
The Micron 7450 PRO is one of those “boring but dependable” drives that tends to make sense in real enterprise workloads—especially where the emphasis is on lots of reads and consistent uptime. At £553.91 ex-VAT for a 480GB model, the price feels more like you’re paying for validation, endurance engineering, and predictable behaviour rather than raw speed bragging rights. If you’re dropping it into servers/NAS/virtualisation nodes where stability matters more than chasing peak benchmarks, it’s a solid choice.
Who should buy: teams standardising on enterprise NVMe for read-heavy applications (VDI gold images, logging/archival read patterns, content services, general storage tiers) and who want a drive from a manufacturer that’s not playing games with firmware or support. Who should *not* bother: if your workload is genuinely mixed or write-heavy, or if you just need a cost-per-GB SSD for general purpose desktops/testing—there are usually better-value options. In short, buy it when you want low-maintenance reliability and procurement-friendly compliance; skip it when you’re trying to squeeze the best price for everyday performance.

Lenovo
Intel S4510 Entry - SSD - 960 GB - internal - 3.5" - SATA 6Gb/s - for ThinkSystem ST50 7Y48, 7Y49

Lenovo
Lenovo ThinkSystem 5210 Entry - SSD - encrypted - 960 GB - hot-swap - 2.5" - SATA 6Gb/s - 256-bit AES - for ThinkSystem SR250, SR530, SR570, SR590, SR645, SR665, SR860, SR950, ST250, ST250 V2, ST550

Lenovo
960 GB - Solid state drive - encrypted - hot-swap - 2.5" - SATA 6Gb/s - 256-bit AES - for ThinkSystem SN850, SR530, SR550, SR570, SR590, SR630, SR650, SR850, SR860, SR950, ST550

Lenovo
Lenovo - SSD - Read Intensive - 3.84 TB - hot-swap - 2.5" - SATA 6Gb/s