A solid-state drive is noticeably faster than any conventional hard disk. It is because an HDD uses rotating disks, which can rotate only so fast and the more info is read and written, the sluggish and warmer they become, at the same time an SDD employs modules of flash memory, hence there aren't any physically moving parts. The access speeds for an SSD are a lot higher, which makes this kind of drives the best solution if speed is needed. That's why SSDs are in many cases employed for the Operating System on a PC and for storing data which is accessed repeatedly on hosting servers. Numerous providers also use a combination of both drives, so they save the data on hard-disks, but they use several solid-state drives to cache the more often used data and as a consequence, the data loads a lot quicker while the load on the HDDs is decreased as their disks need to spin less frequently in order to read and write.
SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting
We use solely SSDs on our state-of-the-art cloud hosting platform and we've removed all HDDs on our production servers in order to provide lightning-fast loading speeds for all aspects of our services - files, e-mails and databases. That way, all of the content you upload to your shared hosting account will be reachable amazingly quickly. In order to boost the performance of the sites hosted on our end even further, we also use multiple SSDs which function solely as cache - our system saves routinely accessed content on them and upgrades it automatically. We take advantage of this type of a configuration to guarantee that traffic-intensive Internet sites will not influence the performance of the other websites hosted on our platform and that way all other websites can also take advantage of the speed which the SSD drives provide. In addition, given that the load on the main drives is reduced, their lifespan will be longer, that's one more guarantee for the safety and stability of your data.