Morgoth is alife
“Morgoth and the High King of Noldor”
by Ted Nasmith
Last Tuesday I received by mail the components for the new karwasz.org server. I assembled them during the afternoon, installed the system during the night and here we are : Morgoth is alife. And so is karwasz.org after a bit less than 3 months of inactivity. I am sorry for the problems that it caused¹.
For those who are interested in the details, Morgoth (morgoth.karwasz.org) is an ATX Screenless Desktop with:
- Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard.
- Athlon 64 3000+ (1800MHz) CPU, Venice core.
- 1 GiB of DDR-400 RAM memory.
- 2 hard disks ( Maxtor DiamondMax 10 SATA 300 6V300F0) of 300 GB (or 279.3 GiB). They are configured into a Linux Software RAID 0 with LVM over it. If you wonder why didn’t I user nVidia’s fakeraid, the answer is simple: I don’t care about compatibility with other OSes, dmraid wasn’t in the Debian installer and many sites assert Linux Software Raid gives better performances than nVidia’s.
- Some other components like a graphic card (it’s a screenless box, so the graphic card is the cheapest one: an MSI RX300HM-TD128E), a DVD-Writer (NEC ND-4550) and a case (Heden B9310UV-N-CA). I was pleasantly surprised by the case that allows to open the case and mount PCI cards without a screw driver: there other retention mechanisms that work as well.
For the curious, this is post n. 42 in my database, though it’s not yet the 42nd published.
¹I had some problems with the online shop that didn’t send me the server for the past 10 days. But I’ll write it in a more appropriate place.
