Save money for hard drives with these 3 Black Friday NAS discounts

Network-attached storage (NAS) enclosures are superb accessories for the home (or office). They’re essentially servers that can do a whole host of smart things, from running and capturing surveillance systems to Plex Media Server for enjoying entertaining content on the big screen. Because of the tech inside, they can be a little pricey, especially if you seek a powerful enclosure.

Black Friday has already reduced many NAS servers and we’ve covered the best Black Friday NAS deals right here, but there are also some deals on the more affordable enclosures that show you don’t need to spend much to buy one.

Synology DiskStation DS220+ | Save $60!

The Synology DiskStation DS220+ has everything you need, including an Intel Celeron J4025 processor, 2GB of DDR4 RAM (upgradable to 6GB), and two drive bays for a total storage capacity of 32TB. This is one of the best NAS enclosures for the home, Plex, and for beginners. It’s a steal at this discounted price. Use promo code BFFRDY37 when checking out!

$240 at Newegg

QNAP TS-230 | $20 off

The QNAP TS-230 is an affordable two-bay NAS enclosure with a Realtek RTD1296 ARM processor, 2GB of DDR4 RAM, and a single 1Gb LAN port. It’s not the most powerful NAS around, but it’s perfect for your first enclosure or for some file storage.

$179 at Best Buy

QNAP TS-431K | $30 off

This is an affordable NAS with four drive bays, allowing you to pack it full of HDDs. Inside, the QNAP TS-431K is powered by AnnapurnaLabs Alpine AL214 ARM processor, 1GB of DDR3 RAM, and two 1Gb LAN ports.

$309 at Best Buy

The Synology DS220+ really is the best value NAS you can buy, even at full price. The Intel processor is fantastic if you want to eventually do more advanced tasks on it and the RAM is user upgradable. The best part is you get to run DiskStation Manager (DSM) 7.0 on it, the company’s OS built on Linux, and it’s the best NAS OS out there.

If you’re just starting out, I’d recommend looking at the QNAP TS-230, which is a two-bay NAS but with a slower ARM processor and RAM that you won’t be able to upgrade. For playing around with NAS or running a file server for backing everything up, it’s perfect. Then there’s the QNAP TS-431K, which bumps the number of drive bays up to four.

There are many more NAS enclosures out there to choose from, but these three are our top picks for saving money and picking up a bargain without leaving you feeling lost ahead of the festive season. The money saved with these enclosures could even be spent on the drives you’ll need to buy to populate the bays.

Western Digital Red 3TB HDD | 19% off

We’re used to seeing 1TB NAS HDDs priced at $60 as the entry point, but right now you can multiply that by three to get 3TB for the exact same price!

$60 at Amazon