Lenovo 4XB7A93786 internal hard drive 16 TB 7200 RPM 3.5" SAS3

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At £650.53 ex-VAT for a 16TB 3.5" SAS drive, this is one of those “works well if you’re buying the right kind of storage” options. Lenovo’s own branded SAS drives are typically reliable in server environments, and the 7200RPM class is a good fit for workloads that actually benefit from faster rotational performance—think active file services, general block storage in a NAS/SAN-ish setup, or any box that already expects SAS. If you’ve got a Lenovo server (or a stack that’s validated for SAS), this is a sensible, cost-contained way to add capacity without introducing compatibility headaches.

That said, I wouldn’t buy this if you’re trying to squeeze the most value out of cost-per-GB for general backup or cold storage—modern SATA/SAS SSD alternatives can make more sense once you factor in noise, power, and failure/seek behaviour. Also, only buy it if your controller/backplane truly supports it and you know your workload wants 3.5" HDD behaviour; if not, you’ll be paying for RPM you won’t feel. For a UK B2B reseller customer, I’d recommend it for: keeping an existing Lenovo SAS server growing reliably. I’d avoid it for: anything “backup-first”, heavily random I/O, or where a quieter, cooler, lower-power drive would matter more than raw capacity.