Getting tired of my hard old 160gb WD's making noise, do SSD really make any noise at all? I know there's no true moving parts in a SSD, but do you get electrical noise?
If there is electrical noise, you'd have to pull it several feet away from the rest of the system to even have a chance of hearing it... and that chance wouldn't be there due to other background noise.
Originally Posted by swat565
do SSD really make any noise at all? I know there's no true moving parts in a SSD, but do you get electrical noise?
No noise. Usually any electrical noise you hear from components is due to capacitors or coils. AFAIK no SSD has coils and few have capacitors (SF1500?).
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Originally Posted by SmokinWaffle
Nope, not really, although I sometimes hear a small buzz when it's being accessed, like a really faint grinding sound, but my SSD is old and frail
Have you tried turning off your speakers? Some sound cards are susceptible to electronic "noise" which typically happens during drive or mouse activity.
I had a kingston 64gb ssdnow Vseries in my laptop and it does sort of make a very quiet "buzzing" noise. I could only hear it when it's being accessed and if I put my ear right up to the palm rest. With a regular desktop case though I doubt you would hear anything at all.
Originally Posted by FDS
I had a kingston 64gb ssdnow Vseries in my laptop and it does sort of make a very quiet "buzzing" noise. I could only hear it when it's being accessed and if I put my ear right up to the palm rest. With a regular desktop case though I doubt you would hear anything at all.
Odd...
My SSDNow doesn't make a sound.
When I put it in I realized that my old 7200.3 was the loudest part in my laptop.
When I put it in I realized that my old 7200.3 was the loudest part in my laptop.
It may have been something else in the laptop I was hearing. When I had my 7200rpm seagate momentus drive in there was audible seeking noise like a regular hdd, but I had never heard this buzzing noise.
As soon as I put the ssd in I could tell when it was being accessed by the buzz noise and hdd led flashing. The room would have to be pretty much silent and you would have to be right up close to hear it. This was in a dell xps m1530 where the hdd is right under the left side of the palm rest with only a very thin case covering it.
So much people telling you about special cases that the SSD is broken, or about the distance between you and the PC, When the answer is simple: SSDs doesnt make any noise at all, they based on Flash/DRAM memory, there no mechanical parts and those who say they have some strange buzz must behaving bad to their drive
Also SSD contain small amounts of storage, another option is to get normal HDD
No, and no heat- one of the many advantages of SSDs!
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