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£1015.57 inc. VAT
AI-generated summary
At **£846.31 ex-VAT for a 480GB 2.5" SATA SSD**, this Lenovo drive feels aggressively priced for what it is. In day-to-day reseller reality, you can usually get similar “make the machine feel faster” benefits from cheaper SATA SSDs—or, if you want genuine performance gains, you’d generally be looking at a newer interface class rather than spending this much on a 2.5" SATA TLC model. Unless you have a specific Lenovo-approved part requirement (warranty/compatibility in a managed estate) or this is unusually discounted in your supply chain, I’d call this **poor value for money**.
Who *should* buy it: organisations standardised on Lenovo spares where the **exact FRU/part number** is needed to keep support simple, or you’re replacing an existing SATA 2.5" SSD and need predictable fit/behaviour. Who shouldn’t: anyone buying purely on cost per GB or chasing maximum performance—this is the kind of spend that’s hard to justify versus more cost-effective SATA options, especially for VDI/SQL/workloads where you’ll feel the bottleneck of SATA long before you run out of SSD capacity.
If you tell me what server/PC it’s going into and the workload (boot drives, file storage, VMs, SQL, etc.), I can sanity-check whether this price makes sense in that specific context—or suggest a more realistic alternative.

Lenovo
Intel S4510 Entry - SSD - encrypted - 240 GB - hot-swap - 3.5" - SATA 6Gb/s - 256-bit AES - for ThinkAgile VX5575 Integrated System, VX7575 Integrated System, VX7576 Certified Node

Lenovo
32 GB - internal - M.2 - SATA 6Gb/s - for ThinkSystem M.2, ThinkSystem SR250, SR530, SR550, SR570, SR590, SR850, SR860, SR950, ST250

Dell
Dell - SSD - Mixed Use - 480 GB - 512e - hot-swap - 2.5" (in 3.5" carrier) - SATA 6Gb/s

Lenovo
Lenovo ThinkSystem PM893 - SSD - Read Intensive - 480 GB - hot-swap - 2.5" - SATA 6Gb/s - for ThinkSystem SN550 V2, SR630 V2, SR645, SR650 V2, SR670 V2, SR850 V2, SR860 V2, ST650 V2