Lenovo 4XB7A13627 internal solid state drive 960 GB 3.5" Serial ATA III

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At £1,177 ex-VAT for a 960GB 3.5" SATA SSD, this Lenovo drives pricing-to-value off a cliff *unless* you’ve got a specific reason to pay for the Lenovo part number (e.g., strict vendor support requirements in a managed fleet). In day-to-day B2B storage use—boot drives, application servers, VM datastores that aren’t doing anything exotic, general “make it faster than HDD”—SATA SSDs simply shouldn’t cost this much anymore. You’ll usually get far better performance per pound, or the same cost with more capacity, by looking at more mainstream enterprise SATA lines or even stepping up to NVMe if your platform supports it.

Who should buy it? Only teams that *need* a Lenovo-branded internal replacement for a specific server model and want the paperwork/support path to stay clean, or organisations with tight procurement rules that won’t entertain equivalents. Who should *not* buy it? Anyone buying “just to improve speed” without a platform constraint—because at this price you’re paying a premium that often isn’t reflected in tangible outcomes. If you tell me the server model and workload (VMs, SQL, file server, etc.), I can sanity-check whether you’re better off with something cheaper in the same family—or whether you should push for NVMe.