Ubiquiti UniFi U6+ Wi-Fi 6 Access Point 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 $90.99 dearer. They are different kinds of product — wi-fi 6 access point against nas hard drive — so read the table as two spec sheets rather than a like-for-like.
Ubiquiti UniFi U6+ Wi-Fi 6 Access Point vs Seagate IronWolf 8TB NAS Hard Drive
Ubiquiti
Ubiquiti UniFi U6+ Wi-Fi 6 Access Point
$99.00
The advertised 3 Gbps is both radios added together, which no single client ever sees -- a laptop on the 5 GHz radio negotiates up to 2,402 Mbps and gets rather less through a wall.
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 U6+ Wi-Fi 6 Access Point is for
Buy it if: Offices replacing consumer routers with managed access points, where client count matters more than peak speed.
Avoid it if: High-density halls and anyone who needs the uplink to carry more than a gigabit.
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 U6+ Wi-Fi 6 Access Point | Seagate IronWolf 8TB NAS Hard Drive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $99.00 | $189.99 |
| Rated power | About 9.5 W maximum | About 8.8 W in operation, 7.0 W idle |
| Warranty | 1-year limited hardware warranty | 3-year limited warranty |
| Annual energy use | About 83 kWh a year running continuously, roughly $14 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 |
| Concurrent clients | About 300 stated, far fewer at usable throughput | not published |
| Interface | not published | SATA 6 Gb/s |
| Mounting | Ceiling or wall, bracket included | not published |
| MTBF | not published | 1 million hours |
| Power method | 802.3af PoE, no injector supplied | not published |
| Radio configuration | 2x2 MIMO on both bands | not published |
| Rated throughput | 573.5 Mbps at 2.4 GHz, 2,402 Mbps at 5 GHz | 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 |
| Uplink port | 1 x Gigabit Ethernet | not published |
| Wireless standard | Wi-Fi 6, 802.11ax | 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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