Seagate IronWolf 8TB NAS Hard Drive vs TP-Link Omada EAP670 AX5400 Ceiling Access Point
What separates them
These two differ on 2 recorded specifications. The Seagate IronWolf 8TB NAS Hard Drive is $40.00 dearer. They are different kinds of product — nas hard drive against wi-fi 6 access point — so read the table as two spec sheets rather than a like-for-like.
Seagate IronWolf 8TB NAS Hard Drive vs TP-Link Omada EAP670 AX5400 Ceiling Access Point
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 →TP-Link
TP-Link Omada EAP670 AX5400 Ceiling Access Point
$149.99
A 2.5 GbE uplink is what separates this from the gigabit access points around it -- the radios can genuinely exceed 1 Gbps, and on a gigabit port that headroom is thrown away.
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 TP-Link Omada EAP670 AX5400 Ceiling Access Point is for
Buy it if: Sites that already have 2.5 GbE switching and want the radios to use it.
Avoid it if: Anyone on an 802.3af-only switch, which cannot supply enough power.
Specifications, side by side
2 of 19 rows differ. Differences first.
| Specification | Seagate IronWolf 8TB NAS Hard Drive | TP-Link Omada EAP670 AX5400 Ceiling Access Point |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $189.99 | $149.99 |
| Rated power | About 8.8 W in operation, 7.0 W idle | About 19.5 W maximum |
| Warranty | 3-year limited warranty | 5-year limited warranty |
| Annual energy use | not published | About 171 kWh a year running continuously, roughly $29 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 |
| Interface | SATA 6 Gb/s | not published |
| Management | not published | Omada cloud, software or OC200 hardware controller |
| Mounting | not published | Ceiling or wall, bracket included |
| MTBF | 1 million hours | not published |
| Power method | not published | 802.3at PoE |
| Radio configuration | not published | 4x4 at 5 GHz, 2x2 at 2.4 GHz |
| Rated throughput | not published | 574 Mbps at 2.4 GHz, 4,804 Mbps at 5 GHz |
| 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 |
| Uplink port | not published | 1 x 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet |
| Wireless standard | not published | Wi-Fi 6, 802.11ax |
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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