📚 These deals show why Prime Day is the time to buy NAS hard drives

A NAS enclosure is nothing without a hard drive to store the OS and data. Most NAS do not come with hard drives, and this is what can really inflate the overall cost, especially if you go for the professional line of drives with higher capacities. It's still possible to score a good deal on a mid-range drive for a NAS, which is where these Prime Day discounts come into play. Toshiba N300 14TB | 31% off at Amazon Rocking a 7200 RPM motor, 256MB cache, and a three-year limited warranty, the Toshiba N300 series of hard drives are a great match for a NAS enclosure. $336 at Amazon Toshiba N300 12TB | 29% off at Amazon Priced a little less than the 14TB model, this 12TB capacity N300 drive from Toshiba has almost identical specifications, including excellent reliability and endurance ratings. $255 at Amazon With NAS hard drives, it's best to use them in a RAID array. This means you can have the data stored on the NAS replicated across more than one drive. This helps to protect you... ...