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SATA Noise Filter worth it?

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ZodaEX

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So i've recently found out about SATA noise filters, and was curious if anyone here had tried one, or knows how much of a difference they make. I notice when loading videogames or certain apps on my computer, I hear a buzzing sound whenever my SSD is under heavy usage. I have always assumed it was a SATA controller making the buzzing noise since the noise definitely isn't coming from the SSD it's self.

Is that the purpose of this product? To eliminate the buzzing/whining you hear when SSDs or hard drives are working? Anyone know how much of a difference they make?

Here's a link in case you don't know what i'm talking about.
http://quietpc.co.uk/sotm-sata-noise-filter
 
the buzzing is coil whine. It happens when some electronics pass just the right of current through themselves and vibrate.

I'd say that like 99% of all high performance graphics cards produce this whine, wifi routers, laptop power supplies, its just an effect that using high amounts of power produces.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coil_noise

What the sata filter would do is maybe help if you had watercooling pumps or flourescent tubes, or a crappy psu .

But you can tell right away if you are having signal problems, when your computer boots up it checks the SATA signal levels, and if there is interference it will downgrade the link. So if you are getting really slow performance (10-50MB/s), which would show as super long boot time, then you might be getting too much interference from somewhere.
 
SATA Noise Filter worth it?
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Not unless this was $5 or something like that.

Is that the purpose of this product?
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To solve a "problem" that does not really need solving.

To eliminate the buzzing/whining you hear when SSDs or hard drives are working?
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I say most likely no. The coils are inside the SSD. This should not change the load so I do not see it altering the vibration caused inside of the SSD or other component that produces coil whine.
 
According to the link it's to eliminate interference from the HD power supply to nearby sound cards for HTPCs
 
Well, you can buy it and see if it works. It looks kinda ridiculous to me, but I'm old and cranky.

It looks like it's filtering the power, which I suppose might technically make some sort of a difference, but SSDs pull so little power as it is that I can't see that being noticeable.
 
Look at the target audience:
A must-have item for any PC audiophile enthusiast or studio engineer
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So if you buy monster cables, you should buy this
 
A SATA noise filter?

Will these stop the whining capacitors in my old Drobo's?

lmao

PT Barnum, he rides again.
 
I would also add the properly grounded and wired power will go a lot farther than SATA Noise Filters.
 
Just throw some parallel caps and series inductors on the data lines, that'll fix it.
 
ZodaEX said:
So i've recently found out about SATA noise filters, and was curious if anyone here had tried one, or knows how much of a difference they make. I notice when loading videogames or certain apps on my computer, I hear a buzzing sound whenever my SSD is under heavy usage. I have always assumed it was a SATA controller making the buzzing noise since the noise definitely isn't coming from the SSD it's self.

Is that the purpose of this product? To eliminate the buzzing/whining you hear when SSDs or hard drives are working? Anyone know how much of a difference they make?

Here's a link in case you don't know what i'm talking about.
http://quietpc.co.uk/sotm-sata-noise-filter
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"Electrial Noise" and "Sound" aren't the same thing.

Sure, Electrial "noise" can cause unfortunate sounds in some situations (mostly with analog signals), they are in no way related in the way you appear to believe they are.
 
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