laptop HDD

I have been hearing this noise for quite a while now, getting a bit worse lately. I don't know if it is the HDD or the Fan (which has issues), I suppose its from the HDD but can never be sure. I am using an OMEN HP - 15-ce001ne Motherboard ID : 838F CrystalDisk shows that health is Good, the...

https://kapwi.ng/c/yuiRZ8UNmy Is it normal 'cause I'm kinda worried.

I hope all of you are doing well. I recently salvaged a Samsung Spinpoint 500GB 2.5'' HDD from my 2013 Alienware M14x R2, a laptop that didn't boot since last year, and I intend to repurpose the HDD by moving it into my main system. So I wanted to ask, once I install it in my main system, will...

So I bought a cooling pad(Deepcool U PAL) for my Acer Nitro 5 that has HDD inside. The cooling pad is tilting the laptop a bit, adjustable from 20° to 45°. Is it safe to use the cooling pad I just bought with a 20° adjusted angle for my HDD? I'm just worried that my HDD will be broken if I use it.

So I built my first pc yesterday. Because of my limited budget, It only comes with an SSD. I did some research and found out that laptop HDD's can be used on desktops. So I installed an old HDD into my desktop, turned it on and I was stuck at the logo screen with the looping thing taking...

So I'm setting up a motherboard (Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P) and I'm stuck on getting the Case switches cables connected properly. The case cables are labeled and color coordinated, yet they do not match my motherboards color scheme or label. I had this problem last time I set this motherboard up...

Hi all!. A friend of mine bough a refurbished 5850 about a year and a half ago, it cost him 50 bucks, but yesterday the card died, and he's stuck with a GT210 or something like that. Anyway, he has a very low budget, what would be the cheapest card to match what he had? Thanks in advance.