APC Back-UPS Pro 1500VA Battery Backup and Surge Protector vs Seagate IronWolf 8TB NAS Hard Drive
What separates them
These two differ on 1 recorded specification. The APC Back-UPS Pro 1500VA Battery Backup and Surge Protector is $40.00 dearer. They are different kinds of product — line interactive ups against nas hard drive — so read the table as two spec sheets rather than a like-for-like.
APC Back-UPS Pro 1500VA Battery Backup and Surge Protector vs Seagate IronWolf 8TB NAS Hard Drive
APC
APC Back-UPS Pro 1500VA Battery Backup and Surge Protector
$229.99
A consumer-grade sibling of the Smart-UPS at a third of the price, and the difference is where it matters: 900 W against 1000 W, and a much shorter warranty on the electronics.
Full details →Seagate
Seagate IronWolf 8TB NAS Hard Drive
$189.99
This is a CMR drive, not SMR, which is the specification that actually matters in a NAS -- shingled drives can take days to rebuild an array and several vendors shipped them into this class without saying so.
Full details →Who the APC Back-UPS Pro 1500VA Battery Backup and Surge Protector is for
Buy it if: Workstations and small NAS units that need sine wave backup without a rack-grade unit.
Avoid it if: Server closets, where the shorter warranty and lighter build are a poor trade.
Who the Seagate IronWolf 8TB NAS Hard Drive is for
Buy it if: NAS and small server arrays that need CMR recording and a rated workload figure.
Avoid it if: Quiet desktop builds and archival storage, where a slower drive is cheaper and cooler.
Specifications, side by side
1 of 19 rows differ. Differences first.
| Specification | APC Back-UPS Pro 1500VA Battery Backup and Surge Protector | Seagate IronWolf 8TB NAS Hard Drive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $229.99 | $189.99 |
| Rated power | About 25 W self-consumption at idle | About 8.8 W in operation, 7.0 W idle |
| Warranty | 3-year limited warranty | 3-year limited warranty |
| Annual energy use | About 219 kWh a year running continuously, roughly $37 at $0.17 per kWh | not published |
| Bay support | not published | Rated for enclosures up to 8 bays |
| Cache | not published | 256 MB |
| Capacity | not published | 8 TB |
| Input plug | NEMA 5-15P, 120 V | not published |
| Interface | not published | SATA 6 Gb/s |
| MTBF | not published | 1 million hours |
| Output rating | 1500 VA / 900 W | not published |
| Output receptacles | 10 x NEMA 5-15R, 5 battery backed | not published |
| Output waveform | True sine wave | not published |
| Rated workload | not published | 180 TB per year |
| Recording technology | not published | CMR, conventional magnetic recording |
| Rotational speed | not published | 7,200 rpm |
| Sustained transfer rate | not published | About 210 MB/s |
| Topology | Line interactive with automatic voltage regulation | not published |
| Typical runtime | About 6 minutes at 900 W, about 19 minutes at 450 W | not published |
| USB charging | 2 ports, 5 V | not published |
Every row is a figure one or both products record. A blank is a figure the catalogue does not hold, not a zero.
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