2007 Mac Mini SSD Noise

I have doen a lot of googling and searching about this, so please excuse if i have missed the answer.

I have just replaced the standard 80GB HDD with a sandisk Extreme 120GB SSD.

I caddied up the ssd and used super duper to clone the internal hdd across then swap them over.

All went well, the mac mini boots up real quick now. The issue is, the drive is buzzing or whirring. I know its the drive because, when i run blackmagic disk speed test, the noise is instantly louder with the read/write of the drive.

I didnt notice any noise when it was caddied though! I have contacted the place i bought it and they have issues an RMA.

My concern is though, that if they caddy it and there is no noise, i get charged to return it to them and back to me, and then the drive is no longer a bargain!

Im just about to remove the drive and put a 250Gb WD in there to fully test it out, and re caddy the SSD.

Any suggestions or ideas from the forum?

Thanks in advance.

Clarkee.

 

flatfoot, thanks for your quick reply.

I have taken the ssd out and replaced it with a WD 250GB HDD , the noise from before has stopped, so it must be the SSD.

clarkee.

 

What is even more odd with this, is the noise varies depending how its is connected.

It is at its noisiest when connected to the actual sata connections in the mac mini, where the original hdd was.

The noise is much less when placed in the optical drive hdd sata caddy i have put in, and less again when in a standard USB 2 sata caddy.

The only pattern i can see is that the faster the data is being read/written, the more noise the drive gives off!

 

I'm pretty sure it's a real SSD.

Mac Mini boots in to OS 10.6.8 in about 15 seconds and apps launch immediately.

It's way lighter compared to any standard 2.5" HDD I own.

It's getting collected Monday to go back, so we'll see what happens with the replacement.

 

Thanks for that, good to know yours runs silent!

When you say 'on a side', do you mean the mac mini turned on its side?

The SSD is getting picked up today, so hopefully, ill have a new quiet one in the next week.

clarkee.