New SSD squealing ~(like capacitor squeal)

bigjimmyauk · 2 Aug 2015 at 13:41

never owned a SSD until yesterday, is squealing normal under load.

if i do a big write to disk over 3gb it lets of a high pick squeal, the king you get on some graphics card when sitting at the games menu doing 1000FPS.

it's a samsung 850 EVO

nacho_man1 · 2 Aug 2015 at 13:44

New one on me, have a few ssd and never had one making a noise, always been silent. Are you sure the noise id from the ssd and not the psu ?

wazza300 · 2 Aug 2015 at 13:51

latest mb bios? try moving sata cables up and away from psu or gpu

what make model mb/psu/gpu are you using

bigjimmyauk · 2 Aug 2015 at 14:49

wazza300 said:
latest mb bios? try moving sata cables up and away from psu or gpu

what make model mb/psu/gpu are you using

yeah latest bios, gtx 750ti, evga supernova 1000w P2(basically a superflower with 10 year warranty) using my OEM dell motherboard at the minute as 1155 mobo's are like rocking horse poo poo

it's 100% coming from the SSD

wazza300 · 2 Aug 2015 at 14:54

It could be emi leakage,either from PSU,GPU or mb,most likely mb if its a budget board

I've never experienced it myself tho with an ssd,would be good to test it in another machine if you can

bigjimmyauk · 2 Aug 2015 at 14:59

wazza300 said:
It could be emi leakage,either from PSU,GPU or mb,most likely mb if its a budget board

I've never experienced it myself tho with an ssd,would be good to test it in another machine if you can

well everything was fine up until yesterday until i installed the SSD

so it's definitely something to do with that

wazza300 · 2 Aug 2015 at 15:00

Yh,it shouldn't hurt anything just annoying

I don't think its the ssd itself,just emi leakage from another component that's causing the noise in the ssd

bigjimmyauk · 2 Aug 2015 at 15:15

wazza300 said:
Yh,it shouldn't hurt anything just annoying

I don't think its the ssd itself,just emi leakage from another component that's causing the noise in the ssd

Should i try shuffling cables around and stuff, would that possibly make a difference?

wazza300 · 2 Aug 2015 at 15:18

yeah it might,i had a case with a front panel audio cable that would cause it,till I moved it away from gpu,so its worth a try with the sata cable

darael · 2 Aug 2015 at 16:53

The only time I can sometimes hear an SSD 'squealing' when working is if I have my ear right up to drive while it's out the case.

Try putting your ear right next to the drive and see what you can hear. With these sorts of noises, it might be a case of trial and error by finding the noise with your ears until you find the culprit.

bigjimmyauk · 3 Aug 2015 at 10:58

Well had a listen turns out it's coming from a chip on the motherbaord. Had a shuffle round of the cables and made no difference. It also turns out despite me thinking my motherboard was only SATA 2 dell decided to stick a revised board out there with a SATA3 port. Hello 550Mb read and writes with 80,000 IOPS

Despite the squeal i'm genuinely impressed(it's my first SSD)

wazza300 · 3 Aug 2015 at 12:48

if you can access the bios try turning off c1e

bigjimmyauk · 3 Aug 2015 at 13:31

wazza300 said:
if you can access the bios try turning off c1e

c1e isn't that cpu idle throttling? i think i have a setting for that but it's not called c1e, i'll have a look when i get home.