A solid-state drive is significantly faster than any regular hard-disk drive. This is because a hard-disk drive employs rotating disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more information is read and written, the slower and warmer they become, at the same time an SDD employs modules of flash memory, hence there aren't any physically moving components. The access speeds for an SSD are considerably higher, which makes this type of drives an ideal solution when speed is needed. This is the reason why SSDs are often employed for the Operating System on a personal computer and for storing data that's used frequently on web servers. A lot of service providers also use a combination of the two drives, so they save the data on hard-disks, but they use a couple of SSDs so as to cache the more frequently used data and as a consequence, the data loads a lot quicker while the load on the HDDs is reduced as their disks need to spin less often in order to read and write.
SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Website Hosting
The cloud platform where we create cloud website hosting accounts uses solely SSD drives, so your web applications and static Internet sites will open very fast. The SSDs are used for files, email addresses and databases, so regardless if you load a page or check for new emails using webmail, the content will load promptly. So as to offer even greater speeds, we also use a number of dedicated SSDs that work only as cache. All content that generates lots of traffic is copied on them automatically and is afterwards read from them and not from the main storage drives. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for better efficiency. What we achieve this way in addition to the improved speed is decreased overall load, thus lower possibility of hardware failures, and extended lifespan of the primary drives, which is one more level of protection for any data that you upload to your account.