NETGEAR GS308PP 8-Port Gigabit PoE+ Unmanaged Switch vs APC Back-UPS Pro 1500VA Battery Backup and Surge Protector
What separates them
These two differ on 3 recorded specifications. The APC Back-UPS Pro 1500VA Battery Backup and Surge Protector is $120.00 dearer. They are different kinds of product — unmanaged poe switch against line interactive ups — so read the table as two spec sheets rather than a like-for-like.
NETGEAR GS308PP 8-Port Gigabit PoE+ Unmanaged Switch vs APC Back-UPS Pro 1500VA Battery Backup and Surge Protector
NETGEAR
NETGEAR GS308PP 8-Port Gigabit PoE+ Unmanaged Switch
$109.99
An 83 W PoE budget across all eight ports is generous for the size, and it is the reason to choose this over a 16-port switch with 45 W to share.
Full details →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 →Who the NETGEAR GS308PP 8-Port Gigabit PoE+ Unmanaged Switch is for
Buy it if: Small camera or access point installs where the power budget matters more than management.
Avoid it if: Anyone who will need VLANs, port statistics or remote diagnosis later.
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.
Specifications, side by side
3 of 17 rows differ. Differences first.
| Specification | NETGEAR GS308PP 8-Port Gigabit PoE+ Unmanaged Switch | APC Back-UPS Pro 1500VA Battery Backup and Surge Protector |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $109.99 | $229.99 |
| Annual energy use | About 876 kWh a year running continuously, roughly $149 at $0.17 per kWh | About 219 kWh a year running continuously, roughly $37 at $0.17 per kWh |
| Rated power | About 6 W with no PoE load, 100 W fully loaded | About 25 W self-consumption at idle |
| Warranty | Limited lifetime hardware warranty | 3-year limited warranty |
| Cooling | Fanless, silent | not published |
| Input plug | not published | NEMA 5-15P, 120 V |
| Management | None -- unmanaged | not published |
| Mounting | Desktop or wall mount | not published |
| Output rating | not published | 1500 VA / 900 W |
| Output receptacles | not published | 10 x NEMA 5-15R, 5 battery backed |
| Output waveform | not published | True sine wave |
| PoE budget | 83 W total across all ports | not published |
| PoE standards | 802.3af and 802.3at | not published |
| Port count | 8 x Gigabit Ethernet, all PoE+ | not published |
| Switching capacity | 16 Gbps | not published |
| Topology | not published | Line interactive with automatic voltage regulation |
| Typical runtime | not published | About 6 minutes at 900 W, about 19 minutes at 450 W |
| USB charging | not published | 2 ports, 5 V |
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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