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2018 Mac Mini coil whine

Spectrum said:
I think you re correct. The video that was posted is of a 2011-2014 era silver MM. Nothing to do with the original poster's question.
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I posted the video, and it is a 2018 new Mac mini I just received yesterday morning. Probably the lighting that makes it look not so space gray.
 
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brentsg said:
Just wanted to mention that I can hear a good bit of coil whine from my new Mini when it'd doing heavy disk access. Kinda bummed, but in the end it probably won't be 2 feet from my ears when it's all setup.

Thought I'd mention b/c some people might be hearing this for the first time. It sounds like electrical noises when doing intensive transfer.
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For those hearing coil whine, which model/configuration do you have?
 
brentsg said:
8700B
8GB
256SSD
10GbE

It's not super loud, but it's currently less than 2 feet from my face. And it'll mostly likely sit on my desk since it's small.
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Thanks. Is anyone seeing it on the entry-level $799 model? Is it less likely to occur there?
 
It is the exact sound that I hear from my macbook pro in very, very silent room.
 
StellarVixen said:
They said that they are using 100 percent recycled aluminum, so there is a ghost of late HDD that is still lurking inside that case.
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It looks like i've got the dreaded coil whine in my newly arrived Mac Mini too - i7/16GB/512GB configuration.

Anyone know if this would be the same for a replacement Mac Mini?
 
AVonGauss said:
Do you have the 1 or 10 GbE variation? The other two configurations above where coil whine was being reported were with the 10 GbE. There might be no correlation, just figured I'd ask though.
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Just the regular 1GbE.... I wonder if this affects all Mac Minis and only some people can hear it/bothered by it? Would be nice not to have the noise, but not sure what the options are?
 
For what it's worth, I had an AEBS that did this. It was more of a hissing, so the sound characteristic is a bit different. Oh well.

I returned my Mini for multiple reasons, but this was one of them.
 
xylitol said:
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That's exactly the sound. Solved. I can hear it going pretty good when editing photos in Lightroom (accessing the drive). So much for SSD's being silent ;) Well, the SSD itself may be silent, but in combination with a capacitor or something to that effect might be causing the presence of the sound. I'm curious what the exact culprit is as that video didn't necessarily explain the underlying cause.
 
same issue here with my MacMini 2018, i7/64GB/2TB/10GbE config. I bought it with 8gb Ram and I had the same noise with 8gb ram too before upgrading. I think its really coming from the SSD, Apple is using Toshiba SSDs now instead of Samsung SSDs or am I wrong? ... and yeah im getting the exact same sound as on the Toshiba SSD video posted before here. I hate this constant noise! I wish apple would still use Samsung SSDs. My MacBook Pro (2017) SSD is completely silent.
 
Fenwayfan77 said:
That's exactly the sound. Solved. I can hear it going pretty good when editing photos in Lightroom (accessing the drive). So much for SSD's being silent ;) Well, the SSD itself may be silent, but in combination with a capacitor or something to that effect might be causing the presence of the sound. I'm curious what the exact culprit is as that video didn't necessarily explain the underlying cause.
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I read the video’s comments. So it’s the components on the SSD board like capacitors, coils and inductors producing the sound. Apparently all SSDs with the components nowadays produce a similar sound. Some are louder than others.
 
Does this happen with the 2014 Mac mini? I never noticed if it did because I usually have the fan running at max speed via smcfancontrol.
 
I just got my Mini yesterday i7/8GB/512GB/1GbE and I can hear the coil whine almost constantly. It's a couple of feet from my head on the desk. To say I'm disappointed is an understatement, to say the least. I want to use this for professional-level audio production and it sounds like a cricket is in there. My 2012 quad MacMini with two self-installed SSDs also exhibited some coil whine, but the sound was softer and didn't really bother me.

I don't want to go through the wait and hassle of returning it for a new one with the possibility that the replacement will have coil whine too. Has anyone replaced theirs and gotten a quiet Mini?
 
galactic orange said:
I just got my Mini yesterday i7/8GB/512GB/1GbE and I can hear the coil whine almost constantly. It's a couple of feet from my head on the desk. To say I'm disappointed is an understatement, to say the least. I want to use this for professional-level audio production and it sounds like a cricket is in there. My 2012 quad MacMini with two self-installed SSDs also exhibited some coil whine, but the sound was softer and didn't really bother me.

I don't want to go through the wait and hassle of returning it for a new one with the possibility that the replacement will have coil whine too. Has anyone replaced theirs and gotten a quiet Mini?
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Since it appears to be a normal (despite user unwanted) manufacturing/construction trait, I'm fairly certain that trying to swap it out for a "quieter" version might be an effort in futility. Looks to be Apple SSDs.....APPLE SSD AP0512M for me.
 
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