Depressing. Get the funeral planned and coffin soon. That HDD model is being sold used on Amazon.

I'd still recommend backing up any important data from it if you have any. I don't expect that drive to last much longer.

I've had my 40GV do something similar except refuse to seek, that is very odd to see it behave that way and hopefully it keeps working fine. It does seem like either after sitting for a long time or being upside down the drive plays dead for a few moments. Neat to see you still have that one in operation : ))

it's going to die soon "deathstars" have it in common

My SSHD is not resurrecting by flipping and still click no matter what position. I created restore image that 77% filled, because it could not fill even a percent after a month of recovering 24/7.

yeah back that up man.