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£850.37 inc. VAT
AI-generated summary
For £708.64 ex-VAT, this doesn’t feel like a “safe default” purchase. A 960GB NVMe drive that’s branded Lenovo can be perfectly solid in a server or workstation—reliability and compatibility are usually a strength, especially if you’re buying into an existing Lenovo ecosystem. If this is going into a machine you’re already standardising on (Lenovo server, Lenovo RAID/backplane, specific firmware requirements, etc.), it can be worth paying a bit more to avoid headaches.
But purely on value for money, you can almost certainly find better deals elsewhere depending on what you need it for. Unless you specifically require Lenovo parts/firmware support or you’re in a managed/contracted environment where “official” spares matter, this price makes it hard to justify versus equivalent-capacity NVMe drives from other reputable OEM/enterprise lines. If you’re buying for general server storage, mixed workloads, or bulk deployment, I’d only go for this if your vendor pricing is favourable compared to alternatives in your basket—or if you’ve confirmed the exact model/firmware is a requirement.

Lenovo
Micron 5300 - SSD - 480 GB - internal - M.2 - SATA 6Gb/s - for ThinkAgile HX33XX Certified Node, MX3330-H Appliance, MX3531-H Hybrid Certified Node

Dell
Dell - SSD - 4 TB - internal - M.2 2280 - PCIe 4.0 x4 (NVMe)

Dell
Dell - Customer Kit - SSD - Mixed Use - 480 GB - 2.5" (in 3.5" carrier) - SATA 6Gb/s

Dell
Dell - SSD - Mixed Use - 1.6 TB - hot-swap - 2.5" - SAS 24Gb/s