Seagate IronWolf 8TB NAS Hard Drive vs Ubiquiti UniFi Cloud Gateway Ultra
What separates them
These two differ on 2 recorded specifications. The Seagate IronWolf 8TB NAS Hard Drive is $60.99 dearer. They are different kinds of product — nas hard drive against network gateway and controller — so read the table as two spec sheets rather than a like-for-like.
Seagate IronWolf 8TB NAS Hard Drive vs Ubiquiti UniFi Cloud Gateway Ultra
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 →Ubiquiti
Ubiquiti UniFi Cloud Gateway Ultra
$129.00
It is a router and the UniFi controller in one box, which removes the separate Cloud Key from a small deployment and is the main reason to choose it.
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 Ubiquiti UniFi Cloud Gateway Ultra is for
Buy it if: Small sites wanting routing, firewalling and the UniFi controller from one appliance.
Avoid it if: Deployments heading past about 30 UniFi devices, which need a Dream Machine Pro or a separate controller.
Specifications, side by side
2 of 19 rows differ. Differences first.
| Specification | Seagate IronWolf 8TB NAS Hard Drive | Ubiquiti UniFi Cloud Gateway Ultra |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $189.99 | $129.00 |
| Rated power | About 8.8 W in operation, 7.0 W idle | About 12 W |
| Warranty | 3-year limited warranty | 1-year limited hardware warranty |
| Annual energy use | not published | About 105 kWh a year running continuously, roughly $18 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 |
| Client capacity | not published | About 300 concurrent clients |
| Cooling | not published | Fanless |
| Interface | SATA 6 Gb/s | not published |
| LAN ports | not published | 4 x Gigabit Ethernet |
| Managed devices | not published | About 30 UniFi devices |
| MTBF | 1 million hours | not published |
| Rated workload | 180 TB per year | not published |
| Recording technology | CMR, conventional magnetic recording | not published |
| Rotational speed | 7,200 rpm | not published |
| Routing throughput | not published | About 1 Gbps with IDS and IPS enabled |
| Storage | not published | 128 GB internal for logs and controller data |
| Sustained transfer rate | About 210 MB/s | not published |
| WAN port | not published | 1 x 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet |
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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