A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules so as to save information. The solid-state drives remain relatively new and more expensive compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), yet they're much faster, so they are frequently employed for Operating Systems and applications on both desktops and servers. An SSD is recommended because it does not have spinning disks that limit its speed and may even cause overheating as it could happen with an HDD. A large number of companies employ SSDs for caching purposes, so all of the content which is accessed more often will be held on this type of drives, while all the other content will be stored on regular HDDs. The main reason to use this kind of a setup is to balance the price and performance of their hosting platform and to lower the load on the HDDs resulting from intense reading and writing processes.
SSD with Data Caching in Hosting
Our state-of-the-art cloud hosting platform uses solely SSD drives, so if you obtain any of our hosting packages, you can take full advantage of the speed that these drives provide. We no longer use hard drives, so your files, databases and e-mail messages will all load from extremely fast SSDs. For even greater performance, we use caching SSDs. Multiple drives are used by our system for any file which is accessed often and the data on these drives is dynamically updated to make sure that all of the traffic-intensive files load from them. In this way, the load on the main drives is lowered, so we can guarantee exceptional performance for all sorts of websites irrespective of how many times they are accessed and avoid a situation where some Internet sites are affected by an excessive number of reading and writing processes generated by others. This setup also raises the lifespan of the primary drives and reduces the chance of disk failure.