I wanted a RAID. I was convinced by the internet that I should just get a NAS. So, I got a Synology DS418, but I didn't realize until I set it up that, despite being assured that it'd work for my use case, it's actually overly complicated for it.
I have one Windows 10 desktop PC that I want to use the NAS as storage for. Other than that I've got my phone and a tablet that it'd be cool to also be able to access things from, but no one else is going to have access to this thing. I live in a 4 story home and the router is 3 floors below me. My wifi signal is great, but I have zero desire to leave the 418 down with the router, as my housemates are pretty unreliable as far as not doing stupid shit to tech devices (don't get me started about the time I went downstairs to reset our router and saw that someone had put their space heater about 3 inches from it).
I set the 418 up by plugging it directly into my pc with ethernet. This worked for getting it up and running, but the computer isn't actually seeing the storage. There's some info around about how to get things working in a direct configuration like this, but it's all pretty confusing, and it seems like a direct connection won't even allow me to do updates to the 418 anyway.
Can anyone walk me through what my best course of action is, either with directly connecting or if I should do something else, like go buy a 2nd router just to plug in between the NAS and my PC?
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