Is Recording and Encoding with DV9500T Bad?

Well, I'm a huge Redskins fan, and I always record the games, well, since last year considering that's when I got my TV Tuner. I'm missing the game this weekend, and was talking about it, and said when I get the laptop I'll be happy, cause with Windows Media Center, I can do scheduled recording, which I currently can't do.

Now someone said that I shouldn't do it because it would fry the computer, here is their exact words.

"Of course, you will likely fry your laptop hard drive if you cap and encode on it. I attach a USB 2.0 drive and have the video processed there if I do anything on my laptop."

Now I'm not sure what he has, how old it is, etc, but is this true?

I want this computer to last me a long time, and I sure don't want to fry it.

Basically this is how it works.

i) Record Game, size ends up about 15 gigs
ii) Open video in VideoReDo and cut out commericals, size is still 15 gigs
iii) Load video in AutoGK and choose settings, I won't name them all, but it drops it down to 1.56 gigs in total, quality isn't real bad either.

And it's done, this process takes about 17 hours (from editing the clips, and then opening in AutoGK.


This will be the specs of the computer in case it matters.

• Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium (32-bit)
• Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Duo processor T7500 (2.20 GHz, 4 MB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB)
• 2GB DDR2 System Memory (2 Dimm)
• 128MB NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS
• Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 4965AGN Network Connection
•240GB 5400RPM SATA Dual Hard Drive (120GB x 2)

 

Computer's can't feel pain, it's not going to be hurt by this, but it is a good workout.

 

I dont think it'll fry for any reason. But never have used a TV Tuner either.

Hope I could help

 

Thanks so far, I don't see it being a problem, I figured it would get hotter considering it doesn't have as big of a space as the Desktop does inside, but I don't see how it'd hurt it, but I'd rather have you all with the computer smarts give me a better feel than just some random person.

 

That guy is an idiot.

What he is likely referring to is that encoding something like video, when the source and destination drive are physically the same, can cause the drive to really slow down, because it's reading and writing at the same time. It will probably go faster if the source and destination are on different drives, but that is really only if the encoding process bottleneck is the drive itself and not the CPU.

And even this issue may not big a really huge deal, because the system will use disk cache when saving the data, which will help a bit.