Lenovo 01GT912 internal hard drive 8 TB 7200 RPM 3.5" SAS

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At £703.58 ex‑VAT for an 8TB 3.5" 7200RPM SAS drive, this is firmly a “datacentre replacement / workload drive” price point. The upside is the usual SAS benefits for B2B environments: solid reliability expectations, predictable performance, and good compatibility with existing backplanes/controllers that already expect SAS. If you’re swapping dead drives in a server that uses SAS, you’ll typically find this class of drive slots in without drama—and you’re paying for the fewer surprises over cheaper, consumer-style storage.

That said, I wouldn’t buy this for anything where you don’t actually need SAS or high sustained spinning performance. If this is going into a system that could use SATA/enterprise SATA, or you’re building something cost-optimised for general file storage, you may be paying a bit of a premium for the interface. Also, if your workload is more IOPS/latency-sensitive (databases, heavy random access), a 7200RPM HDD—even a good one—can feel sluggish compared to SSD or a hybrid setup. Overall: buy it if you’re maintaining or expanding an existing SAS-backed server and need dependable capacity; pass if you’re chasing performance per pound or have flexibility on the storage technology.