A solid-state drive is noticeably quicker than any normal hard disk. The reason is that an HDD works by using spinning disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more information is read and written, the slower and hotter they get, while an SDD works with modules of flash memory, hence there aren't any actually moving parts. The access speeds for an SSD are substantially higher, which makes this kind of drives a preferred solution if speed is needed. This is the reason why SSDs are frequently employed for the Operating System on a computer system and for storing data that's accessed repeatedly on servers. A lot of service providers also use a combination of the two drives, so they save the data on hard disk drives, but they use a couple of SSDs so as to cache the more often used data and because of this, the data loads a lot faster while the load on the HDDs is decreased since their disks have to spin less often in order to read and write.
SSD with Data Caching in Hosting
We use only SSDs on our top-notch cloud hosting platform and we have eliminated all HDDs on our production servers as to provide lightning-fast loading speeds for every part of our services - files, emails and databases. This way, all the content you upload to your hosting account will be reachable very quickly. To boost the overall performance of the sites hosted on our end even more, we also use multiple SSDs which function exclusively as cache - our system stores routinely accessed content on them and updates it automatically. We use this type of a configuration to make sure that traffic-intensive Internet sites don't influence the performance of the other sites hosted on our platform and that way all other websites can also take advantage of the speed that the SSD drives provide. In addition, since the load on the main drives is reduced, their life-span shall be longer, that is one more guarantee for the security and integrity of your info.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
All semi-dedicated server accounts that we provide are made on a cloud platform which uses exclusively SSD drives. We don't use HDDs any longer, so your Internet sites will load quickly because we employ SSDs for each part of the service - files, databases and e-mails. Considering that some users may host websites which could be more frequently visited than others, we also use numerous drives for caching. Our system finds all the content which is accessed more often and duplicates it on these drives so as to load it from them. This setup is used for load-balancing purposes as we make sure that several reading/writing intensive Internet sites will not affect the performance of the rest of the Internet sites which are stored on the same primary drive. Using caching drives also raises the life-span of the main storage SSDs and lowers the chance of disk failures.