A solid-state drive is really quicker than any conventional hard disk. This is because an HDD uses rotating disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more info is read and written, the sluggish and hotter they become, while an SDD employs modules of flash memory, so there aren't any physically moving components. The access speeds for an SSD are significantly higher, which makes these drives the right solution any time speed is needed. That's why SSDs are frequently employed for the Operating System on a home PC and for saving data that is accessed frequently on hosting servers. A large number of service providers also use a combination of both drives, so they keep the data on HDDs, but they use a couple of solid-state drives so as to cache the more often used data and because of that, the data loads faster while the load on the HDDs is decreased as their disks need to spin less frequently to read and write.
SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting
Our state-of-the-art cloud website hosting platform employs exclusively SSD drives, so in case you get any of our cloud hosting plans, you'll take full advantage of the speed that these drives provide. We no longer use HDDs, so your files, databases and email messages will all load from extremely fast SSDs. For even greater performance, we also use caching solid-state drives. A number of drives are used by our system for every file which is accessed often and the data on these drives is dynamically updated to ensure that all of the traffic-intensive files load from them. That way, the load on the primary drives is reduced, so we can ensure excellent performance for all Internet sites regardless of how frequently they are accessed and avoid a situation where some sites are affected by too many reading and writing processes created by others. This setup also increases the lifespan of the primary drives and decreases the risk of disk failure.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you register for one of our semi-dedicated server solutions, we will store your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all the databases and emails. That way, your script-driven applications and webmail will load very quickly. We use dedicated SSDs for caching too. Traffic-intensive website content is duplicated automatically on these drives, so we make certain that a couple of heavy Internet sites that generate a considerable amount of reading and writing processes shall not influence the other websites which share the exact same drive. By reducing the overall load we also boost the lifespan of the main storage disks and lower the possibility of a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add an extra level of security for your content.