Recent content by triangleBoi

It is an external(ish) one, you can read my older replies and you'll see I said "I pulled it out from my old laptop and used it with SATA to USB". I of course don't keep the SATA to USB cable plugged to my laptop all the time, because I change my position a lot. And you can also see from the...

As I said, I have nothing important here. I just have games, UE4 and random useless UE4 projects. Only important stuff are my code projects and I store them on my SSD and GitHub. I just want a good place to store my games, and it was the HDD.

Isn't there a chance of the issue being temporary, is it 100% permanent and will die soon?

Then if it's now free, why is it expected to die?

Why would it just die at night randomly then work after dropping it, I just cannot understand. 1.5 cm is very very short, how did it even matter?

Oh by the way, what I ment by throwing was I dropped it from like 1.5 centimeters.

I don't know if that's an important information but it is an internal drive I pulled out of my old non-functional laptop to use with a SATA to USB thingy. That laptop had a lifespan about 5 years.

I don't store important data on my HDD, just games, UE4 and some random UE4 projects.

The thing I ment was it was not working at all, and it was making different noises than it was when it was working.

I have a 500 GB HDD, and was using it last night. I unplugged it and I slept. Today I tried to used it and plugged it. It was making a noise every 4-5 seconds or so. Then I thinked to myself, let me try throwing it. And I did, and it fixed it. It works now. Any idea why?