Quiet/Noisy SSD Survey

Silencing hard drives, optical drives and other storage devices

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Mallee
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Quiet/Noisy SSD Survey

Post by Mallee » Tue Sep 27, 2011 3:37 am

I thought SSDs were meant to be silent, but I have just come across a review of a Fujitsu notebook that complains about the high frequency chirping noise emitted by its Toshiba Solid State Drive.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Fuj ... 881.0.html

Can anyone provide feedback about which SSDs are quiet and which ones are noisy?

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Re: Quiet/Noisy SSD Survey

Post by nutball » Tue Sep 27, 2011 3:41 am

A couple of my Intel X25-M SSDs do tend to squeal under load. Not something you'd notice if the drive is in a PC, but in a laptop it might be noticeable.

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Re: Quiet/Noisy SSD Survey

Post by andyb » Wed Sep 28, 2011 10:39 am

There is a thread around here all about the noise emitted from one or more of the Intel SSD's.

I however have not heard a thing from either of mine. A 64GB Crucial M225, and a 120GB Corsair Force 3.


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Re: Quiet/Noisy SSD Survey

Post by frenchie » Wed Sep 28, 2011 1:09 pm

Never heard anything from either of my intel SSDs (G2 80go and G2 160Go)

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Re: Quiet/Noisy SSD Survey

Post by kater » Wed Sep 28, 2011 1:20 pm

Neither X25-V nor M4 made a molecule of sound.

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Re: Quiet/Noisy SSD Survey

Post by Vetotat » Wed Sep 28, 2011 10:37 pm

My Intel 320 120GB emitts some kind of high frequency noise during wrtitng of large files. It's not very annoing though, even if it's clearly audible.

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