Why Are WD Purple NV Drives So Expensive?

I see them for $199.00.   How cheap did you get them for last year?

Thanks to Bitcoin miners for graphics card prices, mobile market for DRAM, haven't heard anything about HDD. Picked up a 1TB blue drive for $35 couple days ago.

I have to say that since we started using the WD Purple drives we have experienced a hugely dramatic decrease in failure rates.  HDD failures used to the be the #1 cause of calls/complaints/failure reports but now instead of sending a shipment of 20 drives back to Seagate every other month, we've had one shipment of 20 WD Purple drives over the course of 1 YEAR.  Of course, your mileage may vary.  The engineering to produce a drive that is built for a more constant write-intensive environment rather than just using desktop drives which are designed for a more read-intensive environment has had fantastic returns.

I just checked WD's website and it seems that they discontinued the NV version. That might be the answer to your question.

The new model number is WD60PURZ.

After looking at the spec sheets for the new Z series, it appears that they have merged the NV series into the standard Purple line, if I am reading this spec sheet correctly. Anything 4TB or larger says 8+ drives, which means they have the vibration sensors and tarnish resistance that made the NV series different from the standard Purple drive. Would have been nice if WD would make that info easier to find...