For decades there seemed to be just one single trustworthy way to keep information on a laptop – working with a disk drive (HDD). Then again, this kind of technology is by now showing it’s age – hard drives are actually noisy and sluggish; they can be power–hungry and tend to generate a great deal of warmth in the course of serious operations.

SSD drives, on the other hand, are fast, take in a lesser amount of energy and they are much cooler. They furnish an innovative solution to file accessibility and data storage and are years ahead of HDDs relating to file read/write speed, I/O operation and energy efficacy. See how HDDs stand up against the newer SSD drives.

1. Access Time

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A result of a radical new way of disk drive general performance, SSD drives permit for considerably faster file access rates. With an SSD, data file access instances are much lower (just 0.1 millisecond).

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HDD drives still make use of the very same general data file access technique that’s actually created in the 1950s. Even though it has been much advanced consequently, it’s slow as compared with what SSDs will offer. HDD drives’ data file access rate ranges between 5 and 8 milliseconds.

2. Random I/O Performance

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Because of the brand–new significant file storage strategy incorporated by SSDs, they have quicker data access rates and swifter random I/O performance.

All through eTexHosting’s tests, all of the SSDs revealed their ability to manage at the least 6000 IO’s per second.

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With a HDD drive, the I/O performance gradually enhances the more you employ the hard drive. Nonetheless, just after it gets to a specific restriction, it can’t get speedier. And due to the now–old concept, that I/O limitation is significantly lower than what you could have with an SSD.

HDD are only able to go as far as 400 IO’s per second.

3. Reliability

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The absence of moving elements and spinning disks within SSD drives, and also the latest developments in electric interface technology have generated a significantly better data storage device, having a typical failure rate of 0.5%.

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For an HDD drive to function, it has to rotate a pair of metal hard disks at over 7200 rpm, keeping them magnetically stable in mid–air. They have a good deal of moving parts, motors, magnets and other gadgets jammed in a small place. Therefore it’s no wonder that the common rate of failure associated with an HDD drive ranges among 2% and 5%.

4. Energy Conservation

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SSD drives work nearly silently; they don’t create excess heat; they don’t require supplemental air conditioning options and consume much less power.

Tests have revealed that the normal electrical power consumption of an SSD drive is somewhere between 2 and 5 watts.

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HDD drives are notorious for getting noisy; they are more likely to overheating and whenever you have several disk drives in a server, you need an additional cooling unit used only for them.

All together, HDDs consume somewhere between 6 and 15 watts.

5. CPU Power

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Because of SSD drives’ better I/O effectiveness, the leading hosting server CPU can work with data calls much faster and conserve time for additional procedures.

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

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As compared with SSDs, HDDs permit slower data file access speeds. The CPU will be required to wait for the HDD to come back the requested file, scheduling its resources in the meantime.

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

6.Input/Output Request Times

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Almost all of eTexHosting’s new servers moved to solely SSD drives. Our very own lab tests have indicated that utilizing an SSD, the average service time for an I/O request while building a backup stays under 20 ms.

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Sticking with the same hosting server, but this time built with HDDs, the end results were completely different. The average service time for an I/O query fluctuated between 400 and 500 ms.

7. Backup Rates

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Referring to back–ups and SSDs – we’ve noticed an amazing enhancement with the data backup rate since we transferred to SSDs. Right now, a common web server back up takes just 6 hours.

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We worked with HDDs exclusively for several years and we have got very good knowledge of how an HDD runs. Generating a backup for a web server equipped with HDD drives is going to take around 20 to 24 hours.

With eTexHosting, you can get SSD–operated hosting solutions at reasonable prices. The hosting include SSD drives by default. Apply for an web hosting account with us and witness the way your sites will become far better instantly.

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