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

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At a price of £3,089.42 ex‑VAT for an internal 2.5" SAS SSD, this is absolutely not “commodity SSD” pricing. You’re paying for a very specific target: Dell server environments where you want Dell’s supported parts, predictable reliability, and you’re already in a SAS/SAN-style world. If you’re running Dell infrastructure and this drive is going into an approved slot with the right firmware/support path, it can be a sensible upgrade—especially where latency and IOPS matter more than cheap throughput, and you don’t want to play games with compatibility or warranty coverage.

That said, for many businesses this is overkill unless you truly need the higher-end enterprise use case. If you’re just trying to add storage to a general server, improve responsiveness for a handful of VMs, or replace aging SATA/SAS drives on the cheap, you can almost certainly get similar “real business” benefits for far less money. Also, the capacity/price here means you should double-check whether the spend is genuinely justified versus other options (like mixing tiers, looking at NVMe, or using smaller drives strategically). In short: buy this if you’re standardised on Dell and have a clear performance/reliability requirement; hesitate if you’re price-sensitive or the workload doesn’t demand enterprise SAS SSD behavior.