Solidigm D3 Series D3-S4520 - SSD - 3.84 TB - internal - 2.5" - SATA 6Gb/s

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At £1,438.63 ex-VAT for a 3.84TB SATA 2.5" SSD, the Solidigm D3 is a “good spec, careful value” kind of purchase. These drives make sense when you’re trying to replace aging SATA SSD/HDD capacity in a server or storage tier where SATA is already the interface and you don’t want to rip up backplanes/cabling or move to NVMe. In that scenario, you’ll typically see a solid jump in reliability and consistent performance versus spinning disks, and you get plenty of headroom for backups, read-heavy workloads, VM datastores (where SATA is acceptable), and general write-once or mixed enterprise workloads.

That said, I wouldn’t choose it as a default “performance upgrade” if you’ve got the option of SATA alternatives or NVMe—this is still SATA bottleneck territory, and you can run into budget whiplash if other storage options are priced more aggressively in your region. If your use case is latency-sensitive, heavy random IOPS, or you’re trying to future-proof for bigger workloads, you’ll likely regret not stretching to faster media. In short: buy it if you have a SATA requirement and want dependable enterprise-capacity at a sensible (not bargain-bin) price; skip it if you’re chasing speed or you can buy a better-performing drive for similar money.