WD 12TB Elements External $175.49 @ Amazon

[jasonfox]

Amazon Daily deal on WD 7/15/20

 

WD 12TB Elements Desktop External Hard Drive, USB 3.0 - WDBWLG0120HBK-NESN   @ $175.49

[Energen]

Looks like that's about the going price on a lot of sites... good deal for sure.  However I can't find any info on what the drive itself is.  If you were thinking about stripping this down to pull the drive to use in Unraid, it's not easy to find out if it's SMR or CMR.

[Hoopster]

1 minute ago, Energen said:

Looks like that's about the going price on a lot of sites... good deal for sure.  However I can't find any info on what the drive itself is.  If you were thinking about stripping this down to pull the drive to use in Unraid, it's not easy to find out if it's SMR or CMR.

Could be a WD120EMAZ white label drive  I know the 8TB Elements and Easystore drives contain the WD80EMAZ drives as I have shucked several of them. 

 

None of the WD drive 8TB and above are SMR drives. 

 

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/wd-lists-all-drives-slower-smr-techNOLOGY

 

 

 

 

[ChatNoir]

It was the same thing on the EU side, got myself 2x 14TB for 250€ a piece ... compared to the 496€ for a Red drive ...

But today the price is back up to 320€.

 

So I would suggest not to wait too long if the price looks good for you.

[ChatNoir]

While the deal on the 14TB is off on amazon.fr, there are still good prices on lower capacities.

[Geo-M]

I ordered these on Amazon a few weeks ago.  Both WD120EMAZ helium drives. The WD 8tb externals appear to be a mix of WD80EMAZ (helium) and WD80EDAZ (air).  The air runs extremely hot (60c) in the external enclosure, but are fine shucked with good airflow.