Why don't you offer the 5400 RPM version (ST8000VN002)? It would be a little quieter (26 instead of 32 dBA) and, above all, would have almost halved power consumption (5.3 instead of 10.1 W). Source: https://www.seagate.com/content/dam/seagate/migrated-assets/www-content/datasheets/pdfs/ironwolf-12tb-emea-DS1904-21-2207GB-en_GB.pdf As a private user, I am more interested in the power consumption and noise level than the throughput, which is also almost identical! The only disadvantage I can see: Idle mode has 1 instead of 0.25W. However, since my disc is spinning 24/7 anyway because of Docker, this is not relevant for me.