NETGEAR GS308PP 8-Port Gigabit PoE+ Unmanaged Switch vs Seagate IronWolf 8TB NAS Hard Drive
What separates them
These two differ on 2 recorded specifications. The Seagate IronWolf 8TB NAS Hard Drive is $80.00 dearer. They are different kinds of product — unmanaged poe switch against nas hard drive — so read the table as two spec sheets rather than a like-for-like.
NETGEAR GS308PP 8-Port Gigabit PoE+ Unmanaged Switch vs Seagate IronWolf 8TB NAS Hard Drive
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 →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 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 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
2 of 19 rows differ. Differences first.
| Specification | NETGEAR GS308PP 8-Port Gigabit PoE+ Unmanaged Switch | Seagate IronWolf 8TB NAS Hard Drive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $109.99 | $189.99 |
| Rated power | About 6 W with no PoE load, 100 W fully loaded | About 8.8 W in operation, 7.0 W idle |
| Warranty | Limited lifetime hardware warranty | 3-year limited warranty |
| Annual energy use | About 876 kWh a year running continuously, roughly $149 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 |
| Cooling | Fanless, silent | not published |
| Interface | not published | SATA 6 Gb/s |
| Management | None -- unmanaged | not published |
| Mounting | Desktop or wall mount | not published |
| MTBF | not published | 1 million hours |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Switching capacity | 16 Gbps | 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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