Once you have a website or an app, speed is crucial. The faster your website works and also the speedier your web applications work, the better for you. Given that a site is just an array of files that interact with each other, the systems that store and access these data files have a vital role in site general performance.

Hard disk drives, or HDDs, have been, right until recent years, the most trustworthy products for storing information. However, lately solid–state drives, or SSDs, are actually becoming more popular. Take a look at our evaluation chart to view if HDDs or SSDs are better for you.

1. Access Time

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After the launch of SSD drives, data access speeds have gone over the top. As a result of new electronic interfaces made use of in SSD drives, the average file access time has been reduced towards a all–time low of 0.1millisecond.

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The technology driving HDD drives dates all the way back to 1954. And while it has been significantly refined over time, it’s nonetheless no match for the imaginative concept powering SSD drives. Having today’s HDD drives, the highest file access speed it is possible to attain can vary somewhere between 5 and 8 milliseconds.

2. Random I/O Performance

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Thanks to the exact same radical technique allowing for quicker access times, it is possible to appreciate much better I/O efficiency with SSD drives. They will perform two times as many functions throughout a specific time as compared with an HDD drive.

An SSD can deal with a minimum of 6000 IO’s per second.

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Hard drives feature slower data access speeds because of the older file storage space and access technology they are by making use of. In addition, they exhibit much sluggish random I/O performance when compared to SSD drives.

During our tests, HDD drives maintained around 400 IO operations per second.

3. Reliability

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SSD drives are built to have as fewer moving parts as possible. They use a similar technique like the one found in flash drives and are more efficient in comparison to conventional HDD drives.

SSDs come with an typical failing rate of 0.5%.

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With an HDD drive to function, it has to rotate a few metallic disks at a minimum of 7200 rpm, having them magnetically stabilized in the air. There is a large amount of moving elements, motors, magnets as well as other tools crammed in a small space. So it’s obvious why the average rate of failing of an HDD drive ranges between 2% and 5%.

4. Energy Conservation

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SSD drives operate virtually soundlessly; they don’t generate excess heat; they don’t demand additional cooling options and take in much less electricity.

Trials have demostrated the average electrical power intake of an SSD drive is somewhere between 2 and 5 watts.

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From the second they were designed, HDDs have been very electric power–heavy systems. Then when you’ve got a server with many types of HDD drives, this will raise the regular utility bill.

Typically, HDDs take in between 6 and 15 watts.

5. CPU Power

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Because of SSD drives’ better I/O efficiency, the main web server CPU will be able to process data queries faster and preserve time for additional operations.

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

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By using an HDD, you need to spend time anticipating the outcomes of your data request. It means that the CPU will be idle for further time, waiting around for the HDD to react.

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

6.Input/Output Request Times

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Almost all of Green Lit Hosting’s new machines are now using just SSD drives. Our own lab tests have indicated that by using an SSD, the normal service time for any I/O request whilst performing a backup continues to be under 20 ms.

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Compared to SSD drives, HDDs feature noticeably sluggish service times for input/output queries. During a web server backup, the normal service time for any I/O request can vary between 400 and 500 ms.

7. Backup Rates

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An additional real–life improvement is the speed at which the data backup is developed. With SSDs, a hosting server backup now takes less than 6 hours by using Green Lit Hosting’s web server–optimized software.

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We implemented HDDs mainly for a few years and we have excellent comprehension of exactly how an HDD functions. Creating a backup for a hosting server furnished with HDD drives will take about 20 to 24 hours.

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