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It was last year.
Ok, but it's rather specific case if you were still using a laptop with an HDD last year.
There are still a few use cases... mainly price. A 4TB 2.5" HDD can be had for less than a bottom-of-the-barrel 2TB NVME.
But I would definitely hesitate to bring spinning drives on a bumpy ride.
Spinning drives have a no place in a laptop. In a desktop at home, sure.
Absolutely no reason to put one in a new laptop.
But not all computers are new.
Sure. But even my ~8 year old laptop has an M.2 drive. I haven't seen a spinning disk in anything I've considered buying in the last ~10 years.
This seems highly unlikely. Modern HDDs are extremely resilient.
But I don't know the details of your situation, obviously, and it's not impossible.
And at least the laptops I had with spinning drives had vibration dampening.
What, like the head crashed by sheer coincidence, after eight hours of rattling?
I would be more surprised that you yourself would withstand vibrations extreme enough to kill a hard drive, for 8 hours at that.
... I hope you keep good backups, if you think it takes a hammer-blow to kill a hard drive. The heads float half a dick-hair above spinning metal. They're good at pulling away when it seems like they might get bumped together - but all it takes is one miss.