Samsung 830 Buzzing!

Have a Samsung 830 256GB SSD, have two of them in laptop but one of them buzzes like crazy, it's a constant electrical buzz which is really noticeable when the laptop is idle, when there is load on the ssd you get a really loud squeeling noise also, but the constant buzz is verry irritating, only comes from one of them, anyone else get this issue with any SSD?, I get the squeeling noise on my previous 256GB Samsung PM800 SSD, but not the buzzing noise... must be the ram chips.

It kinds of sounds like the electrical buzz noise you hear from the fan of a really old laptop, or coil whine from a graphics cards VRM but not as loud..

Bought this few days ago from central london retailer, where would I stand on replacement, as they would probably say they can't hear it when they test due to ambient working noise...

 

I have the same issue with the one I have on my desktop, I only hear it when I'm writing to it. Exact sound as you described. Haven't decided what to do about it yet.

 

Yo probably have the buzzing to its very faint, probably overshadowed by your desktops and gpu fans, try just powering on the ssd and listen to it, and yes you do get a very noticeable squeeling noise when you write or read from the disk

 

I thought I had the same, but some forum posts elsewhere convinced me that a more likely source is your graphics card. Try to see if it mostly happens for major screen activity.

 

I have same with my 470 I guess it is normal. Still quieter than a HDD

 

I have 2 x 830 SSD, one makes noise the other does not

 

hi
just quick question , i have dell alienware m15x i7 720 , i just purchased samsung 830 ssd drive, but its showing samsung ssd on sata 1 in bios? my bios is a09 version.

 

Totally unrelated to the buzzing issue of the OP, but here's the short version:

SATA 1 is the port number, not the speed, all SATA ports have an ID number, for example, if you have 4 SATA ports, you will have:

SATA 0
SATA 1
SATA 2
SATA 3

This has nothing to do with speed, it's just the way the computer differentiates multiple SATA ports. Your SSD is connected to SATA port #1, that is all.

 

Fixed the buzzing of my Samsung 830 by disabling the bluetooth adapter in my Dell Inspiron 9400. Caused by some interference maybe? I started disabling internal devices and controllers in device manager and when disabling bluetoothprivate the buzz suddenly dissapeared. Repeated this and same finding. So try disabling different things in device manager that are not needed to run the system like sound, dvdr, bluetooth, wireless,..
I sorted this out because there was no buzz from the disk in another laptop I have, and read another place that mic could pic up some noise and also people reporting different noiselevers of same productmodels. So I got some idea on how to maybe fix it.
Thus it didn't remove 100% of all noise, but 95% all the highpitched irritating noise so I now don't notice it even when fans are turned off. Hope Samsung sorts this out in their next ssd productserie they release so they are less sensitive.
You can also try to run the ssd from external usb 3 or esata cabinet if using laptop to see if it helps. And there is a lot of ssd models that may have some buzz, not only samsung.