Ubiquiti UniFi Switch Lite 16 PoE vs Seagate IronWolf 8TB NAS Hard Drive
What separates them
These two differ on 2 recorded specifications. The Ubiquiti UniFi Switch Lite 16 PoE is $9.01 dearer. They are different kinds of product — managed poe switch against nas hard drive — so read the table as two spec sheets rather than a like-for-like.
Ubiquiti UniFi Switch Lite 16 PoE vs Seagate IronWolf 8TB NAS Hard Drive
Ubiquiti
Ubiquiti UniFi Switch Lite 16 PoE
$199.00
Sixteen gigabit ports, but only eight deliver PoE and they share a 45 W budget between them -- that is the number that decides whether this switch fits, not the port count.
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 Switch Lite 16 PoE is for
Buy it if: A small office running up to eight access points that wants one silent switch and the UniFi controller.
Avoid it if: Anyone powering cameras or door controllers as well, who needs a larger PoE budget rather than more ports.
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 20 rows differ. Differences first.
| Specification | Ubiquiti UniFi Switch Lite 16 PoE | Seagate IronWolf 8TB NAS Hard Drive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $199.00 | $189.99 |
| Rated power | About 7 W with no PoE load, 55 W fully loaded | About 8.8 W in operation, 7.0 W idle |
| Warranty | 1-year limited hardware warranty | 3-year limited warranty |
| Annual energy use | About 480 kWh a year running continuously, roughly $82 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 |
| Input voltage | 100 to 240 V AC, external power supply | not published |
| Interface | not published | SATA 6 Gb/s |
| Management | UniFi Network controller, self-hosted or Cloud Key | not published |
| Mounting | Desktop or wall mount, no rack ears supplied | not published |
| MTBF | not published | 1 million hours |
| PoE budget | 45 W total across all PoE ports | not published |
| PoE standards | 802.3af and 802.3at | not published |
| Port count | 16 x Gigabit Ethernet, 8 with 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 | 32 Gbps non-blocking | 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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