[DrSpLaT]

Recording with my Kiss-DP558 is very loud!
U can hear the player working all over the room, especially during silent parts of a film this is really annoying!
If I play movies from Hard Disk I can hear nothing!
Is this normal?

Plz tell me your opinion and experience about that!

[winge]

To me it seems like a bad HDD. It should not be hearable according to me. I can't hear mine if I don't come really close to the player.

[x3m]

No loud noise over here....

[jrenshaw]

Yep mine is pretty noisey, but it seems to work ok. I just thought it was a 'feature'

[Hi-Jack]

It depends on how fragmented your drive is.
We recorded and delted a lot of files, recorded again and deleted and after a while you hear the noise...

We already are looking at KiSS for some sort of defragmentation...
(or when the disk is completely empty, you can always format it)

[boink]

Originally Posted by DrSpLaT Recording with my Kiss-DP558 is very loud! U can hear the player working all over the room, especially during silent parts of a film this is really annoying! If I play movies from Hard Disk I can hear nothing! Is this normal? Plz tell me your opinion and experience about that!

I have exactly the same expeirence. But as High Jack says you can try to format the HDD. It's helps a lot but unfortunately only for a short time.
Hope they can make a better solutions because I have never heard so much noise from a HDD recorder before, so something must be wrong.

[jrenshaw]

hmm I am sure that being defragmented will cause more disk activity but mine has been noisey since new and from a formatted disk. If the disk does fail in the 558 is it an easy thing to replace, or does it have to be an exact model etc?

[Hi-Jack]

Many models will work fine on the kiss player.
Advised however, is using the same if needed...

GrEeTz

[forza]

do all the Kiss 558 players have the same harddisk model? brand?

It's well known that some harddisks make more noice than others. (like Western Digital)
The samsung spinpoint is very good one ( price, noice level)

For some harddisks you have a silent-mode. Perhaps it's not activated on yours...

[Hi-Jack]

The DP-558 uses the samsung spinpoint (as far as i know)
I will make some internal pictures during the week...