For those who have a site as well as an app, speed is important. The speedier your website functions and then the swifter your apps work, the better for everyone. Since a site is just a range of files that communicate with each other, the devices that keep and work with these files play a huge role in site functionality.

Hard drives, or HDDs, were, right up until recent times, the more effective systems for storing information. However, lately solid–state drives, or SSDs, have been rising in popularity. Have a look at our comparability chart to determine if HDDs or SSDs are better for you.

1. Access Time

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Resulting from a radical new approach to disk drive operation, SSD drives enable for considerably quicker data accessibility speeds. With an SSD, data file accessibility times are much lower (as low as 0.1 millisecond).

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HDD drives continue to use the exact same general data access concept that’s originally created in the 1950s. Though it has been vastly advanced consequently, it’s slow compared to what SSDs are offering to you. HDD drives’ data file access rate ranges somewhere between 5 and 8 milliseconds.

2. Random I/O Performance

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Thanks to the exact same revolutionary strategy allowing for better access times, you can also experience much better I/O effectiveness with SSD drives. They’re able to carry out double the procedures throughout a specific time in comparison with an HDD drive.

An SSD can manage at the least 6000 IO’s per second.

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With a HDD drive, the I/O performance progressively enhances the more you apply the hard drive. Nonetheless, in the past it actually reaches a specific limit, it can’t get speedier. And due to the now–old technology, that I/O restriction is significantly below what you can have with a SSD.

HDD can only go as much as 400 IO’s per second.

3. Reliability

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SSD drives are built to include as less rotating components as possible. They use a similar technology to the one used in flash drives and are also much more trustworthy as opposed to regular HDD drives.

SSDs provide an normal failure rate of 0.5%.

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Since we have previously noted, HDD drives use spinning hard disks. And something that uses plenty of moving parts for extended time frames is more likely to failing.

HDD drives’ regular rate of failure varies somewhere between 2% and 5%.

4. Energy Conservation

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SSD drives are far smaller compared to HDD drives as well as they do not have any moving elements at all. As a result they don’t make as much heat and need less power to function and much less energy for cooling purposes.

SSDs take in somewhere between 2 and 5 watts.

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From the second they have been designed, HDDs have been very power–greedy products. And when you have a hosting server with several HDD drives, this tends to boost the regular electricity bill.

Normally, HDDs take in between 6 and 15 watts.

5. CPU Power

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The quicker the file accessibility rate is, the sooner the data file queries will be treated. As a result the CPU won’t have to arrange assets expecting the SSD to answer back.

The standard I/O wait for SSD drives is 1%.

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Compared with SSDs, HDDs allow for reduced data file accessibility rates. The CPU must await the HDD to come back the requested data, scheduling its resources meanwhile.

The standard I/O wait for HDD drives is about 7%.

6.Input/Output Request Times

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The majority of Benoks Hosting’s completely new web servers are now using just SSD drives. Each of our tests have shown that with an SSD, the typical service time for any I/O request although operating a backup stays below 20 ms.

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In comparison with SSD drives, HDDs offer much slower service times for I/O calls. In a web server backup, the standard service time for an I/O request varies somewhere between 400 and 500 ms.

7. Backup Rates

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One more real–life improvement will be the rate with which the data backup has been produced. With SSDs, a hosting server back up now takes no more than 6 hours by using our hosting server–designed software solutions.

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Through the years, we have utilized primarily HDD drives on our servers and we are knowledgeable of their efficiency. With a server loaded with HDD drives, a full hosting server backup typically takes around 20 to 24 hours.

With Benoks Hosting, you can get SSD–driven hosting solutions at competitive prices. The Linux shared packages incorporate SSD drives automatically. Go in for an hosting account with us and experience the way your sites can become much better automatically.

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