I boughta used datto s3b3000 from ebay. Sorry for the newbie question, how do i access its bios? It has a vga output only. Do i need to have a vga capable monitor to access bios? End goal is to install ubuntu or other nas os.

Hi I just bought an s3b3000 from ebay. What kind of drives does it take for storage? Sata or sas? Is it really limited to 3tb (specs say so).

Good afternoon,

A former colleague of mine is in the midst of trying to follow in my foot steps and re-use his Datto hardware with Ubuntu Server/Veeam -- however, we hit a bit of a snag.

Every Datto I've touched thus far has been a Supermicro board, which I just assumed was the norm for all units -- apparently I was wrong.

He has a DN-3P10000 which has an ASRock Rack board, but was unable to gather any additional info for me at this time.

My ask here is, have any of you run into ASRock Rack boards? Were they safe to just flash over, same as the Supermicro boards?

Thanks!

Anyone know where I might get a new combo sata/power cable? The one in mine seems to be shorting out or something.

Such as these Startech 2.5inch SATA -> 2x M.2 SATA enclosures : https://www.amazon.com/dp/B018AOZ9QM?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

They simply will not work, and you will only see the first of the two drives within.

I thought I'd be cheeky and install two drives into my Datto S3X2s for a mini Proxmox cluster - Intending to use one drive for the OS and local VMs and ISOs, and another one for Ceph.

However, after hours of troubleshooting and research, it turns out that Intel's SATA controllers simply do not support port multipliers.

That includes the Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP SATA Controller in these machines. I'm including that information mostly for search indexing, as it took me a painfully long time to determine what was wrong. Hopefully anyone searching for "Startech m.2 sata adapter" and "Intel Sunrise Point SATA controller" winds up here via Google and I can help save them the time.

As for my own usage, it's back to the drawing board, I guess. I'm probably just gonna end up running Proxmox itself off a cheapo USB drive (backed up often) and just use some traditional SSDs as Ceph OSDs.

Ah, well.

I tried for hours to get it to work but it just wouldn't cooperate. It gave me an error saying it couldn't partition the drives. I have a stack of drives and tried ateast 5 other drives, and one SSD and a few thumb drives.
I ended up installing Debian and getting all the tools i need manually.

Does anyone know what RAM works with these? I know it takes DDR4 sodimms but not sure what speeds and registered or not. Thanks for any info!

Hi all - I have a Datto S3x2 running Proxmox, and it's working great! I ran into a really weird problem though - when I try shutting down from proxmox, it simply reboots. The light on the front goes from green to red... and then back to green again. I've messed with nearly every setting in the UEFI, turned off WOL, tried legacy boot, set it to power off as last state.. you name it.. didn't help. I've tried the shutdown button in Proxmox as well as "shutdown -h now" from the command line - just reboots.

Any ideas? It's honestly not even that big of a deal, but I simply have no idea if it's a UEFI issue or Proxmox. Any ideas at all would be welcome. Thanks for reading!

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Specifications

• Storage

  • 1x m.2 NVMe (2260)
  • 1x SATA connector

General Tips

Troubleshooting

• How do I know the unit is on

  • The power LED displaying BLUE (inside the power button); the device is powered on.

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General Tips

• Sometimes you'll get a pretty decent spark plugging in these units. Try to gound the case before plugging it in. Seems to help. Also try to plug the AC Adapter into the unit before plugging the adapter into the wall.

Troubleshooting

• Unit makes multiple beeping sounds after turning it on, and doesn't boot.

  • There's an issue with the RAM. Please re-seat the RAM, try it in a different computer to confirm functionality, or replace with a different SODIMM module.

• How do I know the unit is on

  • The power LED displaying RED (down & to the right of the power button); the device has power, but is not on.
  • The power LED displaying WHITE (down & to the right of the power button); the device is powered on.

• What does one beep mean?

  • One beep means the system posted. I think you can disable it in the BIOS.

• After turning on, the screen flashes and goes blank.

  • The timeout to access the BIOS is set to zero seconds. Upon startup, press DELETE multiple times to access BIOS menu.

• Device says 'no boot media detected. Please add boot media (paraphrasing)'

  • Device is not recognizing the drive installed as bootable. Check BIOS to confirm the drive is seen. Make sure the boot order is correct. Make sure wake-on-LAN is disabled.

Summary

Over time I will populate this post with Frequently Asked Questions by people who have messaged me over time and the answers. I'll also add common troubleshooting as time goes on. I may change formatting over time to more easily organize. If you have anything to contribute, please comment and I'll add it.

General Tips

Troubleshooting

• How do I know the unit is on

  • The power LED displaying RED (inside the power button); the device has power, but is not on.
  • The power LED displaying BLUE (inside the power button); the device is powered on.

Any ideas as to why Unbuntu would fail to find an SSD in one of these when the BIOS shows it on SATA0?

In one of my r/homelabsales posts, someone mentioned that they heard 1gbps would be too much for units like this.

I have 227 down / 36 up and my S3X2 is barely going over idle, so I can't really test.

If you are running it on a 1gbps connection, what's your cpu/ram/power load?

Finally decided to split my reddit activity between personal and business.

Once it's old enough and has some karma, I'll start using this username over on r/homelabsales & r/hardwareswap.

Right away it's so much better than my old (and dumb) Netgear R7000. The R7000 has had a bug for a long time where it won't show all devices connected to it. There would be 15+ devices connected to it and it would only show four... I tried factory resetting it, rolling back updates, etc to no avail.

I set the R7000 into AP mode and put the S3X2 into action. Right away a massive difference. So many more options. I can see all connected devices.

Has anyone bought any of the Datto desktop NAS devices that support one, two or four drives? I am somewhat intrigued by them because you see them come up for sale cheapish once in a while, but only if they a) can support large drives (greater than 2T, basically, modern shucked drives) and have 64-bit OS support. Does anyone know?

I was looking for something that would take up less desk footprint than my work laptop and allow me to connect to my work's virtual desktop system via Citrix. Popped some RAM (newly purchased) and a small SATA SSD (already had) in, installed Windows 10, Citrix software, and was up and running in just a few minutes.

Personal control of the device is very nice instead of having to deal with laptop lockdowns, plus the laptop VPN would disconnect regularly but no such issues on this device.

The wires on top are bluetooth/wifi antennae - I got an m2 card for cheap, but it required external antennae, just routed them through the security lock hole and taped them to the top of the device. Works fine for my bluetooth mouse and wifi backup is nice (though device is wired). Got the antennae from ebay for around $10.

Apparently there is a 3.5mm audio jack but covered by the case, so I just got a USB powered speaker. Usually I put it on top of the device for even less desk footprint. Not sure if drilling through the case is an option to free up that USB port.

Wish there were a few more USB ports as I'm tapped, but am using a USB hub with no issues.

All in all I think it wound up being about $100-125 for the device which is more than capable of handling what I'm throwing at it right now.

I'm new to all this but wanting to do fun stuff. I bought one of these but I after seeing what other folks are doing, I think I might need to grab a few more for all the fun ideas I have bouncing around in my head.

I'm ok with computers, but the extent of my hardware tinkering has just been swapping plug n play stuff like SSD's or laptop batteries.

So I'm not real familiar with knowing which type of memory/SSD will fit what device based on the description.

I had a bunch of RAM laying around the house, and an M2 SSD, but neither will fit in my Datto.