DELL 345-BGMF internal solid state drive 1.6 TB 2.5" SAS

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AI-generated summary

At £3,089 ex‑VAT for a 2.5" SAS SSD, this is very much *not* a “nice-to-have” upgrade for general servers or everyday storage. The price tells me it’s targeted at environments that genuinely need the performance/consistency benefits of an enterprise SSD and are comfortable managing that cost. If you’re running a Dell platform that supports this drive well and you’re trying to improve workloads like database I/O, high-throughput read/write patterns, or storage-heavy virtualisation—where uptime and predictable latency matter—then it can make sense. For those use cases, paying for the right media and keeping it aligned with the server ecosystem is often cheaper than troubleshooting slowdowns or replacing failing older storage later.

That said, I’d be cautious unless you’ve confirmed compatibility and you’re buying for a specific workload. For many organisations, a lot of the value of enterprise SSDs is lost if you’re bottlenecked elsewhere (controller, network, CPU, RAID design) or if the real-world workload doesn’t demand it. Also, if you’re just looking for capacity-per-pound, this pricing is hard to justify compared with more cost-effective SSD options. In short: buy it if you’ve already done the sizing and you’re matching the drive to a mission-critical Dell server/storage use case—otherwise, I’d look for a better-value alternative.