A solid-state drive is substantially quicker than any conventional hard disk. The reason is that an HDD uses rotating disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more information is read and written, the slower and warmer they get, whereas an SDD takes advantage of modules of flash memory, hence there aren't any physically moving components. The access speeds for an SSD are drastically higher, which makes this type of drives the right solution when speed is needed. Because of this SSDs are often employed for the Operating System on a computer system and for saving data which is accessed repeatedly on hosting servers. A large number of service providers also use a combination of the two drives, so they store the data on hard drives, but they use several SSDs so as to cache the more often used data and due to this fact, the data loads a lot faster while the load on the HDDs is reduced because their disks need to spin less frequently to read and write.
SSD with Data Caching in Shared Web Hosting
Our innovative cloud Internet hosting platform uses solely SSD drives, so in case you obtain any of our shared web hosting solutions, you can benefit from the speed that the drives provide. We no longer use hard disk drives, so your files, databases and email messages will all open from ultra fast SSDs. For even improved performance, we use caching SSDs. A group of drives are used by our system for any file that is accessed more regularly and the data on these drives is dynamically refreshed to ensure that all traffic-intensive files load from them. In this way, the load on the main drives is lowered, so we can ensure perfect performance for all kinds of Internet sites irrespective of how many times they are accessed and avoid a situation where some websites are affected by an excessive number of reading and writing processes generated by others. This setup also improves the lifespan of the main drives and decreases the chance of disk failure.