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		gwbas1c on Sept 29, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: HDD Clicker – HDD Sound Simulator My work laptop is currently a dell that makes little clicking noises when it access flash. At first I wondered if it actually had a hard drive or something wrong with it, but when I did a bit of googling, I guess some flash chips make noise.

boltzmann-brain on Sept 29, 2022 [–]

is it coil whine, or is it the flash chip itself that makes the noise?

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