2011-03-08, 18:31
I'm expanding my HTPC built around Asus AT3IONT-I Deluxe (atom 330, ion based motherboard). I have 4 gb ram installed on it and system disk is a SSD and dual WD Caviar green 2tb as storage.
Currently it's running ubuntu server with XBMC as media frontend. I also use it as a NAS for my home network and rtorrent (with the rutorrent http frontend). This is a working setup and it has served me well but I'm thinking about adding a BlueRay-player to it to make it a complete media machine. My problem is that linux isn't supporting BR-disc playback, and Windows with extra software does. Now I'm thinking of switching to Windows as OS for it but I dont know if my setup has enough power to run it smoothly doing about the same tasks as it does today. I would switch rtorrent to utorrent and use the inbuilt webinterface to control it, share the stuff through the windows network and ofcause still run XBMC as my frontend. I would still like the ability to control the machine from another computer (as I do now through ssh) but dont know how to do that on a windows machine.
I would really appriciate any input on the matter, specially if windows would be too resource hungry to make it a smooth experiance.
Currently it's running ubuntu server with XBMC as media frontend. I also use it as a NAS for my home network and rtorrent (with the rutorrent http frontend). This is a working setup and it has served me well but I'm thinking about adding a BlueRay-player to it to make it a complete media machine. My problem is that linux isn't supporting BR-disc playback, and Windows with extra software does. Now I'm thinking of switching to Windows as OS for it but I dont know if my setup has enough power to run it smoothly doing about the same tasks as it does today. I would switch rtorrent to utorrent and use the inbuilt webinterface to control it, share the stuff through the windows network and ofcause still run XBMC as my frontend. I would still like the ability to control the machine from another computer (as I do now through ssh) but dont know how to do that on a windows machine.
I would really appriciate any input on the matter, specially if windows would be too resource hungry to make it a smooth experiance.