For decades there seemed to be only 1 reliable path to keep data on your computer – working with a hard drive (HDD). Then again, this kind of technology is presently displaying it’s age – hard disk drives are really loud and sluggish; they can be power–hungry and are likely to generate lots of heat during intense operations.

SSD drives, alternatively, are swift, take in significantly less power and tend to be far less hot. They provide a completely new way of file accessibility and storage and are years in advance of HDDs when considering file read/write speed, I/O efficiency and also power capability. Find out how HDDs fare against the more recent SSD drives.

1. Access Time

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SSD drives offer a fresh & imaginative way of data storage according to the usage of electronic interfaces instead of any moving parts and turning disks. This new technology is way quicker, permitting a 0.1 millisecond data file accessibility time.

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HDD drives even now take advantage of the exact same general data file access technology that was actually developed in the 1950s. Despite the fact that it has been much improved after that, it’s sluggish in comparison with what SSDs will offer. HDD drives’ file access speed ranges between 5 and 8 milliseconds.

2. Random I/O Performance

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The random I/O performance is crucial for the efficiency of a file storage device. We have run in depth testing and have identified an SSD can deal with at the least 6000 IO’s per second.

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Over the same lab tests, the HDD drives demonstrated to be much slower, with 400 IO operations handled per second. While this might appear to be a good deal, if you have an overloaded server that serves lots of popular web sites, a slow hard disk drive may lead to slow–loading websites.

3. Reliability

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SSD drives don’t have any rotating components, which means that there’s far less machinery inside them. And the fewer actually moving components you’ll find, the lower the likelihood of failure are going to be.

The common rate of failing of an SSD drive is 0.5%.

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To have an HDD drive to operate, it needs to spin a few metal disks at more than 7200 rpm, holding them magnetically stable in mid–air. There is a massive amount of moving components, motors, magnets and also other devices crammed in a tiny location. So it’s obvious why the standard rate of failure of any HDD drive can vary between 2% and 5%.

4. Energy Conservation

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SSD drives are considerably smaller compared to HDD drives and they lack any moving elements at all. It means that they don’t create so much heat and require a lot less power to operate and fewer power for cooling purposes.

SSDs consume between 2 and 5 watts.

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HDD drives are renowned for being loud; they’re more likely to getting hot and whenever you have several hard drives inside a web server, you have to have one more air conditioning unit simply for them.

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

5. CPU Power

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The swifter the data access speed is, the faster the data requests will likely be delt with. Because of this the CPU won’t have to arrange allocations waiting around for the SSD to answer back.

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

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In comparison to SSDs, HDDs allow for not so quick data accessibility speeds. The CPU will have to await the HDD to come back the requested file, saving its allocations in the meantime.

The average I/O delay for HDD drives is approximately 7%.

6.Input/Output Request Times

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The vast majority of Spacer Web Hosting’s completely new machines are now using only SSD drives. All of our lab tests have indicated that by using an SSD, the average service time for any I/O request while doing a backup remains below 20 ms.

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All through the exact same tests with the same web server, this time installed out using HDDs, overall performance was much slow. All through the server back up procedure, the typical service time for I/O calls varied somewhere between 400 and 500 ms.

7. Backup Rates

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Speaking about backups and SSDs – we have detected a great development in the backup rate as we moved to SSDs. Today, a common server back–up takes solely 6 hours.

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Alternatively, with a server with HDD drives, a similar data backup usually takes 3 to 4 times as long to finish. A full back up of an HDD–equipped server usually takes 20 to 24 hours.

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