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20 Mar, 2026

£471.41 inc. VAT
AI-generated summary
For £392.84 ex‑VAT on a 128GB M.2 SATA SSD, this is hard to justify in most real-world deployments. That’s a very “premium” price point for the capacity, and SATA-based M.2 drives are typically the budget path—fine for light use, but you don’t want to pay flagship money when you could usually get either more capacity or a better-performing NVMe option for similar cost. If you’re buying for office PCs, thin clients, or anything that’s mostly about booting and basic app use, you’ll feel the limits of the small capacity quickly, and performance won’t be night-and-day anyway versus other sane choices.
Who *might* buy this: a Lenovo-specific compatibility requirement (some refurb/hardware refresh scenarios) where you need an exact part number for a model that supports it cleanly, and the system already has tight storage constraints. Even then, I’d usually push back and confirm what your actual alternative is—either a bigger SSD from the same vendor line or an NVMe upgrade—because for most UK B2B builds, you’re paying for branding rather than value. Unless there’s a contractual/compatibility reason, I’d treat this as a “don’t overpay” situation. If you tell me the model of the device you’re installing it into and what the workload is, I can give a clearer yes/no.

Dell
Dell - Customer Kit - SSD - Mixed Use - 960 GB - 512e - hot-swap - 2.5" (in 3.5" carrier) - SATA 6Gb/s

Kingston
Kingston KC3000 - SSD - 2048 GB - internal - M.2 2280 - PCIe 4.0 (NVMe) - for Intel Next Unit of Computing 12 Pro Kit - NUC12WSKi5

Lenovo
Intel S4510 Entry - SSD - encrypted - 240 GB - hot-swap - 3.5" - SATA 6Gb/s - 256-bit AES - for ThinkAgile VX5575 Integrated System, VX7575 Integrated System, VX7576 Certified Node

Samsung
Samsung 9100 PRO MZ-VAP2T0 - SSD - encrypted - 2 TB - internal - M.2 2280 - PCI Express 5.0 x4 (NVMe) - 256-bit AES - TCG Opal Encryption 2.0 - integrated heatsink - black