For years there was a single dependable method to keep info on a pc – using a hard drive (HDD). On the other hand, this type of technology is currently displaying it’s age – hard disk drives are actually loud and slow; they are power–ravenous and have a tendency to create a great deal of heat in the course of intense procedures.

SSD drives, in contrast, are extremely fast, consume significantly less power and they are far less hot. They feature a new solution to file accessibility and storage and are years ahead of HDDs in relation to file read/write speed, I/O efficiency and then energy effectivity. Figure out how HDDs stand up against the modern SSD drives.

1. Access Time

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With the introduction of SSD drives, file access rates have gone over the top. Because of the unique electronic interfaces employed in SSD drives, the normal file access time has been reduced into a record low of 0.1millisecond.

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HDD drives count on rotating disks for files storage applications. When a file will be accessed, you have to wait around for the appropriate disk to reach the correct position for the laser beam to access the file in question. This translates into a typical access speed of 5 to 8 milliseconds.

2. Random I/O Performance

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On account of the same revolutionary method that enables for a lot faster access times, you can also experience far better I/O effectiveness with SSD drives. They can complete double the operations during a specific time when compared to an HDD drive.

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

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Throughout the exact same lab tests, the HDD drives demonstrated that they are much slower, with 400 IO operations maintained per second. While this may seem like a large number, if you have a hectic web server that hosts lots of sought after web sites, a slow disk drive could lead to slow–loading web sites.

3. Reliability

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The lack of moving elements and spinning disks inside SSD drives, as well as the recent improvements in electric interface technology have ended in an extremely less risky file storage device, having a normal failing rate of 0.5%.

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For an HDD drive to function, it should rotate a few metal disks at more than 7200 rpm, having them magnetically stable in mid–air. There is a great number of moving components, motors, magnets as well as other tools packed in a small location. So it’s no surprise that the regular rate of failing of any HDD drive can vary somewhere between 2% and 5%.

4. Energy Conservation

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SSD drives are considerably smaller compared to HDD drives and also they don’t possess any moving parts whatsoever. This means that they don’t make so much heat and need much less power to work and fewer energy for cooling reasons.

SSDs use up somewhere between 2 and 5 watts.

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From the time they were designed, HDDs were always really energy–hungry equipment. And when you have a web server with lots of HDD drives, this can increase the regular monthly utility bill.

Normally, HDDs take in between 6 and 15 watts.

5. CPU Power

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As a result of SSD drives’ greater I/O efficiency, the key hosting server CPU can easily work with data demands more rapidly and save time for other procedures.

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

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Compared with SSDs, HDDs enable not so quick data accessibility rates. The CPU must wait around for the HDD to send back the required data, reserving its resources meanwhile.

The typical I/O delay for HDD drives is approximately 7%.

6.Input/Output Request Times

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In real life, SSDs conduct as wonderfully as they managed during the checks. We ran an entire platform back–up using one of our production web servers. Over the backup operation, the common service time for any I/O demands was indeed below 20 ms.

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With the exact same hosting server, however this time built with HDDs, the end results were totally different. The regular service time for any I/O request fluctuated somewhere between 400 and 500 ms.

7. Backup Rates

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Yet another real–life enhancement will be the speed at which the backup was created. With SSDs, a hosting server data backup now requires only 6 hours by using RCS-Tek Cloud Hosting’s web server–designed software solutions.

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Over the years, we’ve utilized mostly HDD drives with our machines and we are familiar with their effectiveness. On a hosting server pre–loaded with HDD drives, an entire web server data backup will take about 20 to 24 hours.

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