- IT Office Moves
IT Requirements for Moving to a Flexible Workspace
18 Mar, 2026

£923.11 inc. VAT
AI-generated summary
At £769.26 ex‑VAT for a single 16GB Lenovo DDR4 RDIMM, this feels like one of those “it’s the exact part, so it must be fine” purchases. In real terms, that price only makes sense if you’re trying to avoid compatibility risk in a specific Lenovo server model and you value the assurance that comes with OEM-validated memory. If your workload is sensitive to uptime and you’d rather not play the “will it POST with this DIMM?” game, paying more for the right RDIMM can be cheaper than downtime and troubleshooting.
That said, for most businesses this is hard to justify on value-for-money. If you have flexibility, you’ll almost certainly find substantially cheaper compatible DDR4 RDIMMs from reputable suppliers (assuming you know your server’s exact memory requirements and slot/UDIMM/RDIMM constraints). This is mainly a good buy for: Lenovo server owners who need a like-for-like replacement, tight change-control environments, and teams that don’t want to second-guess memory compatibility. It’s not a great choice for anyone trying to expand memory on a budget or who doesn’t strictly need OEM. If you tell me the server model, I can sanity-check whether the OEM premium is justified in your case.

Kingston
Kingston - DDR4 - module - 64 GB - DIMM 288-pin - 3200 MT/s / PC4-25600 - CL22 - 1.2 V - registered - ECC

Kingston
Kingston FURY Renegade RGB - DDR5 - kit - 96 GB: 2 x 48 GB - DIMM 288-pin - 6400 MT/s / PC5-51200 - CL32 - 1.4 V - unbuffered - on-die ECC - black & silver

Lenovo
Lenovo - DDR5 - module - 16 GB - DIMM 288-pin - 5600 MHz / PC5-44800 - unbuffered - ECC

Kingston
Kingston FURY Renegade - DDR4 - kit - 16 GB: 2 x 8 GB - DIMM 288-pin - 3200 MT/s / PC4-25600 - CL16 - 1.35 V - unbuffered - non-ECC - black