In October 2011 I built my first home server. The server was named Mordor.

The home server project is an ongoing process. Routine maintenance, hardware upgrades, and software stack ensuring I get all the features I want.

This is the index page for all posts related to the ongoing project.

Below, you can also find an up-to-date spec of Mordor.

See also my post on side projects workflow for details on projects and index pages.

Note that this project started before I formalized this workflow, so it doesn’t follow it.

Project Posts

Here is a list of posts related to the project, ordered from oldest to newest:

• Mordor 1.0: My Dedicated unRAID Server
• Installing VMware ESXi on Mordor
• Setting up unRAID as VM on Mordor
• Enhancing Mordor unRAID With IBM ServerRAID M1015

Mordor – Current Spec

CPU	Intel® Core™ i5-3550 (Amazon, eBay)
Mother Board	ASUS P8Z68-V Pro s1155 (BIOS updated to v3402) (Amazon, eBay)
RAM	G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 32GB (4x8GB) DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) (Amazon, eBay)
Host Boot Device	SanDisk Cruzer Blade 4GB Flash Disk (Amazon, eBay)
RAID Card	IBM ServerRAID M1015 (cross-flashed with the LSI “IT” firmware (for LSI 9210-8i) ) (eBay, Amazon)
Case	Fractal Design Define XL Full Tower ATX (Amazon, eBay)
Power Supply	Corsair TX 650W V2 Active PFC (Amazon, eBay)
CPU Cooling	Noctua NH-U12P SE2 (Amazon, eBay)
Case Fans	3 built-in fan + Antec True Quiet 140mm (Amazon, eBay)
Datastore HDs	Patriot Torqx 2.5″ 64GB SATA II (SSD) (Amazon, eBay) 2x Western Digital Red 3TB SATA III 3.5″ WD30EFRX (Mechanical) (Amazon, eBay) Western Digital Green 3TB SATA III 3.5″ WD30EZRX (Mechanical) (Amazon, eBay)
unRAID HDs	3x Western Digital Red 3TB SATA III 3.5″ WD30EFRX (Mechanical) (Amazon, eBay) Total NAS capacity: 6TB, surviving loss of up to one HD
UPS	Advice PRV 850 USB

Host software: VMware ESXi Hypervisor 5.1.0