A solid-state drive is noticeably quicker than any conventional hard disk. The reason is that a hard-disk drive uses spinning disks, which can rotate only so fast and the more info is read and written, the sluggish and warmer they get, while an SDD operates with modules of flash memory, hence there aren't any actually moving parts. The access speeds for an SSD are significantly higher, which makes this sort of drives the best solution every time speed is needed. This is the reason why SSDs are often employed for the Operating System on a laptop or computer and for storing data which is accessed frequently on servers. A large number of service providers also use a combination of both drives, so they keep the data on hard-disks, but they use one or more solid-state drives so as to cache the more often used data and because of this, the data loads much quicker while the load on the HDDs is decreased because their disks need to spin less frequently to read and write.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting

In case you host your websites in a cloud hosting account with us, you will definitely notice their excellent performance. This is because our cloud platform uses solely SSD drives for all of the files, e-mail addresses and databases and we don't use HDDs for any part of the hosting service. Along with the innovative ZFS file system, this setup will boost the speed of your sites substantially. For load-balancing, we also use multiple SSDs for caching purposes only. All content which generates more traffic or causes lots of reading/writing processes is copied on them promptly, so the load on the primary drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all sites hosted with us will improve. The aforementioned subsequently prolongs the life of the primary drives and decreases the potential for a disk failure, which is another guarantee for the reliability of all content that you upload to your account.