Seagate IronWolf 8TB NAS Hard Drive vs NETGEAR GS308PP 8-Port Gigabit PoE+ Unmanaged Switch
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 — nas hard drive against unmanaged poe switch — so read the table as two spec sheets rather than a like-for-like.
Seagate IronWolf 8TB NAS Hard Drive vs NETGEAR GS308PP 8-Port Gigabit PoE+ Unmanaged Switch
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 →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 →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.
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.
Specifications, side by side
2 of 19 rows differ. Differences first.
| Specification | Seagate IronWolf 8TB NAS Hard Drive | NETGEAR GS308PP 8-Port Gigabit PoE+ Unmanaged Switch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $189.99 | $109.99 |
| Rated power | About 8.8 W in operation, 7.0 W idle | About 6 W with no PoE load, 100 W fully loaded |
| Warranty | 3-year limited warranty | Limited lifetime hardware warranty |
| Annual energy use | not published | About 876 kWh a year running continuously, roughly $149 at $0.17 per kWh |
| Bay support | Rated for enclosures up to 8 bays | not published |
| Cache | 256 MB | not published |
| Capacity | 8 TB | not published |
| Cooling | not published | Fanless, silent |
| Interface | SATA 6 Gb/s | not published |
| Management | not published | None -- unmanaged |
| Mounting | not published | Desktop or wall mount |
| MTBF | 1 million hours | not published |
| PoE budget | not published | 83 W total across all ports |
| PoE standards | not published | 802.3af and 802.3at |
| Port count | not published | 8 x Gigabit Ethernet, all PoE+ |
| Rated workload | 180 TB per year | not published |
| Recording technology | CMR, conventional magnetic recording | not published |
| Rotational speed | 7,200 rpm | not published |
| Sustained transfer rate | About 210 MB/s | not published |
| Switching capacity | not published | 16 Gbps |
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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