They were this price back in July as well. According to a post in r/datahoarder, Amazon is limiting these to three per account.
All those links work for me. I see both the $174.99 ( WDBAMA0120HBK-NESN ) and $199.99 ( WDBCKA0120HBK-NESN ) on their website, and $174.99 on their eBay store.Bestbuy is up to $199 now on their site and ebay - the website link is dead now and the sku changed: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-eas...-3-0-hard-drive-black/6364259.p?skuId=6364259
Best buy seems to have multiple pages and SKUs for these drives. The link I posted seems to be alive again.Bestbuy is up to $199 now on their site and ebay - the website link is dead now and the sku changed: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-eas...-3-0-hard-drive-black/6364259.p?skuId=6364259
Can you link to those reports?Just FYI WD switched the drives in these enclosures with the new SKU. There have been some reports about air filled drives and other weird complications.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/hafi4kCan you link to those reports?
I used to have a ton of both EMAZs and EMFZs. They are 5400rpm but with 512MB cache. They read/write faster than the EMAZs when I did surface tests. The EMFZs have PWDIS enabled. I got rid of the EMFZs when I upgraded the server drives to 14TB and kept the EMAZs for my desktop because I didn't like the separate power cable.They're both ostensibly 5400 rpm and 256MB buffer. Smart data for the two drives is nearly identical (the WD120EDAZ is not in the smart database, the other drive is). They even have the same firmware 81.00A81.
Edit: SO, I just did some more research and it appears that the WD120EMFZ with R/N: US7SAP140 may actually be the 14TB drive with the 12TB firmware installed. The 14TB drive is 7200 rpm and has a 512MB buffer. The manual link I posted above for the Ultrastar-DC-530 says as much. The Amazon spec sheet says the 12TB drive weighs in at 0.87 kg and the 14TB drive is 0.90 kg. I'll update once I've weighed them.
Here is a reddit thread with more information on this. Going through various forum posts, it looks like a lot of the WD 8TB drives documented as 5400 rpm are actually 7200 rpm. This leads me to believe that these 12TB drives are also spinning at 7200 rpm. Guess more sleuthing is in order..