Beardo, hard drives always rattle. If louder than before or usual, try to make a full copy of the (relevant) data immediately (to another HDD, a flash drive or your computer). Then download a testing software and run it on your HDD. If its broken, get it exchanged if theres still a warranty on it. Otherwise, bring it to your e-waste collection point if there is such an institution at your place/in your town/country. Repairing it is not fesasible. If you have very valuable unique data on it and you couldn’t save them, you can bring the defect HDD to a shop specialized on data recovery. They will open the drive and scan it using special equipment in their laboratory, then store everything they can collect to a USB-stick. The work will cost you more than a new HDD. Actually, nowadays its better to go with flash drives/USB-sticks anyway. Don’t buy the cheapest, get it checked by a tool before using it, and overthink your data backup strategy.
Beardo, hard drives always rattle. If louder than before or usual, try to make a full copy of the (relevant) data immediately (to another HDD, a flash drive or your computer). Then download a testing software and run it on your HDD. If its broken, get it exchanged if theres still a warranty on it. Otherwise, bring it to your e-waste collection point if there is such an institution at your place/in your town/country. Repairing it is not fesasible. If you have very valuable unique data on it and you couldn’t save them, you can bring the defect HDD to a shop specialized on data recovery. They will open the drive and scan it using special equipment in their laboratory, then store everything they can collect to a USB-stick. The work will cost you more than a new HDD. Actually, nowadays its better to go with flash drives/USB-sticks anyway. Don’t buy the cheapest, get it checked by a tool before using it, and overthink your data backup strategy.