Lenovo 01DC192 internal hard drive 600 GB 15000 RPM 2.5" SAS

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For £548.75 ex-VAT, a 2.5" 15K SAS drive is only a good deal if you *actually* need that kind of latency and IOPS — think high-end VMware/virtualisation hosts, transactional databases, or other “spin fast” workloads where you’d rather buy performance than babysit caches. The upside of this sort of drive is predictable behaviour and solid enterprise support lifecycles; it’s the kind of thing you drop into an existing SAS backplane without re-architecting storage. If your server environment already runs SAS and you’re replacing failed/aged 15K units, it’s a sensible, low-risk fit.

That said, I wouldn’t buy this just because it’s “enterprise” or because it has a big price tag — that’s how people end up paying for performance they can’t exploit. At this money, you should compare total cost against SSD options or even a storage tiering approach; for many business apps, SSDs deliver a lot more practical benefit than going from 10K to 15K spinning media. Also, if you’re thinking “just install a single 600GB drive,” you may be wasting the best part of SAS—these drives really shine when the platform and workload are set up for them (right RAID/controller, right airflow, and the I/O pattern to justify it).