For many years there was just one efficient way to keep information on your computer – employing a hard disk drive (HDD). On the other hand, this type of technology is by now demonstrating it’s age – hard disks are loud and slow; they’re power–hungry and are likely to create quite a lot of heat during serious operations.

SSD drives, alternatively, are quick, take in significantly less power and are also far less hot. They feature an innovative method of file accessibility and data storage and are years in advance of HDDs with regard to file read/write speed, I/O performance and also energy effectivity. Find out how HDDs fare against the more recent SSD drives.

1. Access Time

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With the introduction of SSD drives, data access speeds have gone through the roof. With thanks to the unique electronic interfaces made use of in SSD drives, the average data file access time has been reduced to a record low of 0.1millisecond.

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The concept powering HDD drives times all the way back to 1954. And while it has been significantly polished as time passes, it’s still can’t stand up to the revolutionary ideas powering SSD drives. Through today’s HDD drives, the top file access rate you’ll be able to achieve differs in between 5 and 8 milliseconds.

2. Random I/O Performance

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The random I/O performance is very important for the performance of a file storage device. We have executed in depth trials and have confirmed an SSD can deal with at the very least 6000 IO’s per second.

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Hard drives offer slower data file access rates as a result of older file storage space and accessibility technology they’re implementing. And in addition they demonstrate much slower random I/O performance in comparison to SSD drives.

During Maxinville Technologies Limited’s trials, HDD drives handled around 400 IO operations per second.

3. Reliability

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The lack of moving components and spinning disks within SSD drives, and also the current advancements in electronic interface technology have generated a much less risky data storage device, having a typical failure rate of 0.5%.

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As we have documented, HDD drives depend on spinning hard disks. And anything that uses a large number of moving parts for continuous intervals is liable to failure.

HDD drives’ average rate of failing can vary somewhere between 2% and 5%.

4. Energy Conservation

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SSD drives are considerably smaller than HDD drives and they lack virtually any moving components at all. This means that they don’t create just as much heat and need a lot less energy to operate and fewer power for chilling reasons.

SSDs use up between 2 and 5 watts.

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From the time they were constructed, HDDs have invariably been extremely electricity–greedy devices. And when you have a hosting server with a bunch of HDD drives, this will certainly increase the monthly electricity bill.

Typically, HDDs take in somewhere between 6 and 15 watts.

5. CPU Power

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SSD drives permit faster file access speeds, which, in return, permit the CPU to finish file queries faster and then to go back to different duties.

The common I/O hold out for SSD drives is only 1%.

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When compared with SSDs, HDDs allow for not so quick data accessibility speeds. The CPU must wait for the HDD to send back the demanded data file, scheduling its assets in the meanwhile.

The regular I/O delay for HDD drives is about 7%.

6.Input/Output Request Times

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The vast majority of our completely new machines moved to simply SSD drives. Our very own tests have established that with an SSD, the normal service time for any I/O request although doing a backup stays below 20 ms.

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Throughout the same lab tests sticking with the same server, now equipped out with HDDs, functionality was significantly slower. During the hosting server data backup procedure, the standard service time for any I/O demands varied somewhere between 400 and 500 ms.

7. Backup Rates

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Yet another real–life advancement is the rate at which the back up was made. With SSDs, a web server back up currently takes only 6 hours implementing Maxinville Technologies Limited’s web server–designed software solutions.

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Over the years, we have got employed mainly HDD drives on our servers and we’re well aware of their efficiency. With a server designed with HDD drives, an entire hosting server back–up will take around 20 to 24 hours.

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