A solid-state drive is incredibly faster than any regular hard disk. It is because an HDD uses rotating disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more info is read and written, the slower and hotter they become, whereas an SDD takes advantage of modules of flash memory, so there aren't any physically moving components. The access speeds for an SSD are much higher, which makes this type of drives a recommended solution when speed is needed. Because of this SSDs are often used for the Operating System on a desktop or notebook and for keeping data that is used often on hosting servers. Numerous providers also use a combination of the two drives, so they keep the data on HDDs, but they use a couple of SSDs in order to cache the more often used data and as a result, the data loads a lot quicker while the load on the HDDs is lowered because their disks need to spin less often to read and write.
SSD with Data Caching in Shared Web Hosting
Our state-of-the-art cloud hosting platform employs only SSD drives, so if you obtain any of our shared web hosting solutions, you'll take advantage of the speed that the drives provide. We no longer use hard disks, so your files, databases and emails will all open from extremely fast SSDs. For even improved performance, we also use caching solid-state drives. A group of drives are used by our system for any file that is accessed more frequently and the data on these drives is dynamically refreshed to ensure that all traffic-intensive files load from them. In this way, the load on the primary drives is reduced, so we can provide excellent performance for all sites no matter how often they're accessed and avoid a situation where some sites are affected by an excessive number of reading and writing processes created by others. This setup also increases the lifespan of the main drives and reduces the possibility of disk failure.