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

pete_agreatguy · 28 Jul 2020 at 12:59

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

Mcnumpty2323 · 28 Jul 2020 at 13:02

Saw some one post a while back
About same thing
But my memory is notoriously bad lol
And can't remember the outcome
Perhaps if you use search you can find
The post

BongoHunter · 28 Jul 2020 at 13:09

What motherboard? Some kind of fan kicking in when the drives under load?

Mcnumpty2323 · 28 Jul 2020 at 13:15

Got 2 x mp510 960gb myself
No noise from them
As said chipset fan perhaps?
And if you search for
Aorus 2tb nvme noise you should find the
Post I mentioned

pete_agreatguy · 28 Jul 2020 at 17:01

No chipset fan on my Asus ROG x470.

Tried the search function - I could not find the post you were referring too

Mcnumpty2323 · 28 Jul 2020 at 17:50

pete_agreatguy said:
No chipset fan on my Asus ROG x470.

Tried the search function - I could not find the post you were referring too

My bad
I can't spell it right, bit dyslexic
It's auros not aorus
So search auros 2tb nvme noise

pete_agreatguy · 28 Jul 2020 at 18:02

Found it (located here). Reading through, his was a AIO water cooler issue.

I am using a Noctua D-15S cpu cooler so it is not that.

I will contact Corsair and ask their advice on this.

Mcnumpty2323 · 28 Jul 2020 at 18:05

pete_agreatguy said:
Found it (located here). Reading through, his was a AIO water cooler issue.

I am using a Noctua D-15S cpu cooler so it is not that.

I will contact Corsair and ask their advice on this.

Be interested in what corsair say
Only thing I can think of
Is maybe caused by heat expansion?
Since there's no moving parts

pete_agreatguy · 28 Jul 2020 at 18:22

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.

Mcnumpty2323 · 28 Jul 2020 at 18:40

Being an old fart lol
Maybe mine do it but I simply can't hear
It if it's too high pitched
But yeah be interesting what corsair say
I still love my mp510 anyway

pete_agreatguy · 28 Jul 2020 at 19:20

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

Mcnumpty2323 · 28 Jul 2020 at 19:36

pete_agreatguy said:
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

Not seen him in a while
Think he had some family issues /tradegy or something?
Makes a change hearing his name instead of that irritating linus guy lol

pete_agreatguy · 29 Jul 2020 at 11:06

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.

pete_agreatguy · 6 Aug 2020 at 11:37

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

pc-guy · 6 Aug 2020 at 12:55

Mcnumpty2323 said:
Saw some one post a while back
About same thing
But my memory is notoriously bad lol
And can't remember the outcome
Perhaps if you use search you can find
The post

There was a post about it. The noise was from a fan not the drive.

sadat · 6 Aug 2020 at 13:00

That's strange. Never heard about m.2 drives making noise. Do you have any other m.2 laying around to do a quick swap to isolate the problem to that drive?

pete_agreatguy · 6 Aug 2020 at 13:08

pete_agreatguy said:
Found it (located here). Reading through, his was a AIO water cooler issue.

I am using a Noctua D-15S cpu cooler so it is not that.

I will contact Corsair and ask their advice on this.

Nor is it my case fans (already ruled them all out). It's certianly the m.2 drive.

Mcnumpty2323 · 6 Aug 2020 at 14:11

pete_agreatguy said:
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

Definitely not hearing that from mine under heavy load or otherwise

pc-guy · 6 Aug 2020 at 16:43

pete_agreatguy said:
Nor is it my case fans (already ruled them all out). It's certianly the m.2 drive.

The post starter of the other thread also was sure the noise came from the NVME due to it synced with Drive activity and described a hissing noise.

the noise you recorded sounds quite mechanical.

VortexA1 · 7 Aug 2020 at 13:03

I reckon its the motherboard it sounds like a capacitor is failing on it.