Lenovo 01DC427 internal hard drive 600 GB 10000 RPM 2.5" SAS

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At £410 ex-VAT for a 600GB 2.5" SAS drive, this feels overpriced unless you have a very specific reason to stay on that exact model/capacity. The 10K RPM thing is usually justified in older server workloads where you need responsive random access, but in 2024/2025 most teams would rather put that money towards SSDs (or at least higher-capacity SAS drives) because the day-to-day performance gain is bigger than the RPM difference you’re paying for here. For general “server spares” or normal storage expansion, you’ll usually get more sensible value by buying more capacity per pound or moving the workload to flash.

Who *should* buy it: you’re maintaining legacy Lenovo environments that already expect 2.5" SAS drives, you need a like-for-like replacement to keep downtime low, and you’re not planning to modernise storage immediately. Who *shouldn’t*: anyone with an option to use SSD/SATA/NVMe for the same budget, or anyone building new capacity—this is the kind of purchase that makes sense only as a maintenance swap, not as a performance or value upgrade. If you can get the same drive cheaper from a spare-parts channel, I’d feel better about it; at this price, I’d be pushing hard for alternatives unless it’s genuinely required for compatibility.