[SOLVED] SSD withOUT high pitched whine/noise?

[jesynn]

So I've had experience with 2 SSD drives. The first was in a laptop, a lenovo yoga 2, and the 2nd I just bought as an upgrade for my desktop. This one is a cheaper drive, because i figured, hey they are probably mostly all the same right? It is a brand I never heard of ''SK hynix GOLD S31 SSD''

It runs great, awesome upgrade... but when I came back to it today I noticed that it has a high pitched whine. After googling some about this (and remembering my old laptop which had the same behavior) I found that many people swear that SSD drives do not emit any sound, while others are tormented by them... I'm the latter. I have a super bad headache today and I may be one of the unfortunate highly susceptible ones to this horrible sound, lol :/

Question is, does anyone know for a fact that certain brands or models are better for this? Emit less of a high pitched whine? If at all? I'm hearing this while nothing is going on. It is simply at idle atm and it's jarring as hell.

Thanks for any suggestions, after googling I really came up null and most posts about this subject seemed to be from years ago and turned into debates over people who don't believe SSD drives are even capable of emitting such a noise and those that suffer it bad. For the record I have already tested that it is in fact, definitely the SSD. Unplugging the power and booting up removes the sound, plugging it back in and booting up it is back. :/

thanks

 

[saabir2007]

That's a bit surprising since they have no moving parts...
Well, I've only had Samsung SSDs in the past, they ran totally silent. I'd 100% return that or get a replacement at least.

 

[USAFRet]

None of the dozen or so SSD's I have (partial list below) make any 'noise'.

Might it be something else? The PSU doing so under the changed load?
Is the drive securely bolted in to the case?
Try to isolate the actual location. A piece of rolled paper held to your ear can localize.