Ubiquiti UniFi Cloud Gateway Ultra 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 $60.99 dearer. They are different kinds of product — network gateway and controller against nas hard drive — so read the table as two spec sheets rather than a like-for-like.
Ubiquiti UniFi Cloud Gateway Ultra vs Seagate IronWolf 8TB NAS Hard Drive
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 →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 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.
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 | Ubiquiti UniFi Cloud Gateway Ultra | Seagate IronWolf 8TB NAS Hard Drive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $129.00 | $189.99 |
| Rated power | About 12 W | About 8.8 W in operation, 7.0 W idle |
| Warranty | 1-year limited hardware warranty | 3-year limited warranty |
| Annual energy use | About 105 kWh a year running continuously, roughly $18 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 |
| Client capacity | About 300 concurrent clients | not published |
| Cooling | Fanless | not published |
| Interface | not published | SATA 6 Gb/s |
| LAN ports | 4 x Gigabit Ethernet | not published |
| Managed devices | About 30 UniFi devices | not published |
| MTBF | not published | 1 million hours |
| Rated workload | not published | 180 TB per year |
| Recording technology | not published | CMR, conventional magnetic recording |
| Rotational speed | not published | 7,200 rpm |
| Routing throughput | About 1 Gbps with IDS and IPS enabled | not published |
| Storage | 128 GB internal for logs and controller data | not published |
| Sustained transfer rate | not published | About 210 MB/s |
| WAN port | 1 x 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet | 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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