Corsair MP510 nvme m.2 ssd high pitch noise sound under load

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Hi all,

I built my system back in November and am using a Corsair MP510 480GB m.2 Gen 3 SSD for my OS drive.

The drive is working fine (read/writes etc), however when loading a game with a lot of heavy mods, the drive makes a high pitched sound/noise. As soon as the game has loaded, this stops and the drive returns to being silent again. I have only noticed it in the latter. When transferring large files (2GB+), the drive operates silently; including normal operations (Photoshop, browsing the web etc).

I have installed the thermal pad and heatsink which came with my Asus ROG board.

Is this normal? And is it something to be concerned about?

I have run check disk and error checking with no issues. Hard disk sentinel reports no issues and 100% health on the drive.

Temperatures are all fine (below 47 deg c under heavy load).

Thanks for your input on this matter in advance :)
 
Well a google search found others are having similar sounds to me. Again, when the drive is only under extreme heavy load.

Because it is not doing it all the time I am not convinced it is faulty - no BSOD or any faults or crashes suddenly. That and the inital check disk, error checking and hard disk sentinel reported nothing wrong and excellent health.

Seems to be only with my ETS2 game (which has many heavy mods). As I stated in the original post, it stops immediately once the game is loaded. So I can only assume it is considered "normal".

I'll keep you apprised on what Corsair say/advise.
 
Oh, don't get me wrong, Tiny Tom (OC3D TV on YouTube) did a fantastic review of these MP510 drives. He compared them to the Samsung drives and they were my choice for the price after seeing his review :)
 
Yeah, he had a family member pass away. Not much of a fan of Linus, nothing but cash trucks sent by Intel reversing up to his warehouse lol.

I've submitted a Corsair ticket this morning so will certainly keep apprised on what they report back.
 
Thought I'd give a slight update.

Corsair are in contact. They asked me to record the noise. So I did. I'll leave it here for now if you want to have a listen - you may need to increase sound volume to hear the noise 6 seconds is when it starts (it may get deleted in the future).

I'll keep everyone apprised on this one :)
 
Hi all,

Thought I'd provide an update on this.

Apologies for not seeing your replies before - no email of responses for some reason :confused:.

UPDATE:

I've had Corsair do an RMA on the m.2 drive. The replacement m.2 is not making any noise as recorded above. They could not clarify (as of writing this reply) whether the noise was a sign of a fault but they insisted I return the drive as a precaution.

Even though the old drive functioned correctly and speeds were as expected, I believe Corsair were correct in their action to request me to send the old one back as a precaution.

Thank you for all your aid in this matter which is now resolved via a RMA under warranty.

To any one else hearing a similar noise as to the above; I would recommend contacting your m.2 manufacturer for an RMA replacement.

PS: I replaced the Asus ROG board thermal pad with an "Advancing Gene Nano Silicone Thermal Pad for M.2 2280 NVMe SSD Heatsinks, 70x20x1mm (2PCS Pack)" and saw much better cooling performance with the latter thermal pad.
 
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