Lenovo 01DC472 internal solid state drive 1.6 TB 2.5" SAS

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For £3,028.75 ex‑VAT, this Lenovo 2.5" SAS SSD is very much a “server people” purchase: you’d normally only pay this kind of money when you’re in a Lenovo-centric environment and you *specifically* need SAS for your controller, firmware/compatibility, or vendor-supported storage. If you’re upgrading a mission-critical box where uptime and predictable behaviour matter more than chasing the cheapest performance per pound, this can make sense—especially if it’s going into an established Lenovo platform where the risk of weirdness is lower and support is straightforward.

That said, for most general IT use cases, it’s hard to justify. If this is for desktops, file sharing, dev/test, or anything not tightly tied to that SAS/Lenovo support ecosystem, you can almost always get better value elsewhere. Also, if your workload is write-heavy and you don’t actually need the SAS angle, the price is simply too steep for the average customer’s return. I’d only recommend buying if you’ve confirmed the storage controller support and the use case truly benefits from SAS-backed drives; otherwise, you’ll likely be overpaying.