I was looking into some drives for backing up my personal stuff and one i was interested in was the 8tb firecuda external drive. I seen somewhere that they are just barracudas and i looked it up again and found someone who said they bought one to shuck and inside was a Barracuda ST8000DM004. This was interesting because i had the exact same drive picked out as an alternative. So do the firecuda external 8tb really use this drive? The Barracuda ST8000DM004 has 5,400rpm but the internal firecuda drives are listed at 7,200. It seems strange if they aren't using the actual firecuda drives in the external firecudas. I was also wondering, would an Exos X16 12tb drive be good for using as a desktop drive? I plan to put music, pictures, videos, music production programs and games on it. The games will probably take up the most space but i don't intend on playing the games from the drive, just to store them on and move them to my ssd when i decide to play. So I'm wondering if the external firecuda is a bad idea or would an internal firecuda be better? I dont exactly know how to hook an internal one up but i guess i can youtube it. Or should i just use the Exos? I was also considering one of those renewed WD Ultrastar 10tb drives for $69.99. I keep reading that the enterprise drives are longer lasting and im not going to use them anywhere near at a commercial level so I'm hoping that would mean they would last even longer. You guys are probably a lot more knowledgeable than me and hopefully yall can help me make a better choice with my drive purchases.