Richard Pettigrew

Hello everyone, I have inherited a second hand Datto device (4-bay dersktop unit) and plan to re-purpose it as a home NAS. I looked around the web and found out how to get in to the BIOS (password needed - discovered it to be "R@str", which workd). Phase one complete. Having booted the Datto device from USB in to Windows 10 setup, I wiped all the internal disks ready for new deployment. (it has 1 x 120GB Kingston SSD and 2 x 2TB 5.25" SATA in the drive bays, 8GB RAM and a 2-core Xeon 2.4GHz CPU, so not althogther awfull!) I tried out OpenMediaVault but would prefer the Synology DSM as it has many advantages over OMV, not the least of which is the Apps available. So, next pahse is to get this device booted up and instal XPEnology and then DSM.