Lenovo 4XB7A90880 internal solid state drive 960 GB 3.5" Serial ATA III V-NAND TLC

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At £1,152 ex-VAT for a 960GB 3.5" SATA SSD, this is a “feels too expensive” situation unless there’s a very specific reason you’re buying it. In a lot of UK business builds, you can get equal or better day-to-day performance for the money by moving to newer, faster drives (especially if the workload is storage-latency sensitive). SATA SSDs can still be a big upgrade over spinning disks, but paying a premium for “SATA + 3.5-inch” generally only makes sense when you’re constrained by existing server/backplane compatibility or you’re standardising on a particular Lenovo platform where drives are officially supported and swapped with minimal hassle.

Who should buy it? If you’ve got legacy hardware or a Lenovo server/storage appliance that only takes that form factor/connection, and you value predictable compatibility, this might be justified—especially for bulk storage, general application storage, backups, file shares, or non-twitchy workloads where SATA performance is “good enough” and uptime/support matters. Who should *not* buy it? If you’re greenfield provisioning, upgrading a workstation/server that can take M.2/NVMe, or you’re cost-sensitive and performance-per-pound matters, I’d be looking elsewhere first. It’s not that it’s a bad drive—it’s that at this price, it doesn’t offer obvious value compared with the alternatives many UK resellers can source.