Lenovo 01DC626 internal hard drive 10 TB 7200 RPM 3.5" SAS

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If you’re looking for a straightforward, reliable 3.5" SAS drive for a server that already expects SAS, the Lenovo 01DC626 is a pretty sensible choice. £627.50 ex-VAT for a 10TB spindindle at 7200rpm is the kind of pricing that tends to make sense when you want capacity without paying “enterprise SSD” money, and when your priority is sustained throughput rather than ultra-low latency. In day-to-day UK business environments—virtualisation hosts, file/backup servers, general NAS-style workloads—the bigger question is less the brand name and more whether your controller/backplane supports it cleanly and whether you’re comfortable with the usual moving-parts reality of HDDs.

That said, I wouldn’t buy it blindly. If this is for something latency-sensitive (databases with lots of random I/O, performance-heavy transactional workloads), you’ll likely regret not budgeting for SSDs or even hybrid storage. Also, make sure you’re not paying a premium because of compatibility: SAS drives are great when you have the right infrastructure, but if you’re in a SATA-only box or you’ll be mixing drive types in a way your system doesn’t like, the “deal” can turn sour fast. Who should buy: IT teams standardising on Lenovo/SAS in racks that already use 3.5" bays and need dependable bulk storage. Who shouldn’t: anyone chasing peak performance per £ or anyone without a proven SAS path.