u/DeltaBlastBurn

I have 2 HDD's stacked next to my laptop that are always plugged in when my laptop is. A 10tb and a 22tb. The 22tb is on top. Early Monday morning I woke to the 22tb falling off the stack. It tends to slide out of place over time while idling and I forgot to push it back into alignment before bed. It usually takes 8+ hours of idling to get close to falling. As soon as I heard it fall I got up and shut down the laptop the proper way. And it has been sitting unused ever since. I would like to know the proper steps to take to check for and prevent further damage safely for the drive. It in warranty so if I'm told to RMA it instead of personally checking I will.

I let a friend borrow an sd card and they claim it's acting odd. I found it in device manager based on the name that shows up in the list. I was wondering if there was a way to check the exact device it was and if so what values I need from it's properties in device manager.

Can I have an external 5TB USB 3 HDD attached to the system to be used used to store games, but transfer them to the internal secondary SSD to play. Or can I leave the games stored on the HDD and play them from there? USB A 3.0 isn't fast enough correct?

What if I purchased a game before this change was made but haven't downloaded it yet? I purchased a PS4 game on April 9th in preparation for getting PS5 console that I've had difficulties physically getting into my possesion. I'm not going to get into it here, but I should have had the console before the recent fw update. I haven't received it, yet though.