W520 overly sensitive to movement..HDD crash cause?

I had an HDD crash on my new W520 so I ended up getting a new hdd but wondering now if my W520 is sensitive to vibration.
I will sit in a chair with the laptop on my lap and when I get up I will life the thinkpad and then move it laterally to sit it on the table. Today, I noticed the system stuttered (streaming music) one time and the second time it just shut down when I did this. I then moved it side to side laterally and actually was able to recreate it -- system paused (music halted) and resumed. I checked the airbag monitor and see no warnings -- not sure if it would say anything.
I do not think it is a loose solder connection since the movement is quite gentle and I have used think pads for years like this without any issues..even had one to a belly flop from 3 ft and survived -- was running at the time.
Given I had the hdd crash I did get to replace the HDD, it is now accessible from the bottom. What I do not like about the design is the hdd door has a backstop that holds the hdd into the connector (slides in the pocket to engage a non-latching connector) and then access door has the feature to keep the hdd from sliding back. It does not seem to be "padded" so more a hard stop. It does have the blue side absorbing.
The chair scenario is just what was going on when the HDD died for good so see this as a clear indicator of something going on and think it is a design attribute.
Just wondering....

Ah, so not always the two SSDs. Any chance that you are having issues with the Ultrabay III adapter? Others have reported that the loose fit caused disconnection issues, but I believe that you reported that all was well in your experience. There will be a new EC firmware release for a different power management issue (CPU throttling), but I've got no clue as to whether it will inadvertently address the random shutdowns too. I don't think that the engineering team has been able to reproduce a consistent shutdown scenario in spite of having some systems that did do this when in the customers' possession. It's difficult to fix a problem when you can't determine the failure mode scenario.
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