For decades there was only 1 reliable way to keep info on your computer – using a disk drive (HDD). Having said that, this kind of technology is actually showing it’s age – hard disk drives are really loud and slow; they’re power–hungry and frequently produce quite a lot of warmth in the course of serious operations.

SSD drives, in contrast, are swift, take in much less power and they are far less hot. They feature a completely new approach to file accessibility and data storage and are years in front of HDDs when it comes to file read/write speed, I/O operation and energy effectivity. Find out how HDDs stand up up against the more recent SSD drives.

1. Access Time

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Resulting from a radical new approach to disk drive performance, SSD drives make it possible for much quicker file access speeds. Having an SSD, data access times are far lower (under 0.1 millisecond).

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The concept powering HDD drives dates back to 1954. Even though it has been substantially processed over time, it’s even now no match for the ground breaking concept powering SSD drives. Having today’s HDD drives, the highest data access speed it is possible to achieve may differ in between 5 and 8 milliseconds.

2. Random I/O Performance

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Resulting from the brand–new significant file storage approach incorporated by SSDs, they supply swifter data access rates and faster random I/O performance.

All through our lab tests, all of the SSDs confirmed their capability to handle at the very least 6000 IO’s per second.

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With an HDD drive, the I/O performance gradually enhances the more you apply the drive. Nonetheless, once it actually reaches a certain limit, it can’t get faster. And because of the now–old technology, that I/O limit is significantly lower than what you could find having an SSD.

HDD can only go as far as 400 IO’s per second.

3. Reliability

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The lack of moving components and spinning disks inside SSD drives, and the recent advancements in electronic interface technology have led to a substantially reliable file storage device, having an average failure rate of 0.5%.

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For the HDD drive to work, it has to spin a few metallic disks at over 7200 rpm, keeping them magnetically stable in the air. They have a massive amount of moving components, motors, magnets as well as other tools packed in a small location. Therefore it’s obvious why the normal rate of failure of an HDD drive ranges somewhere between 2% and 5%.

4. Energy Conservation

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SSDs do not have moving components and need little or no chilling power. In addition, they call for not much electricity to work – lab tests have demonstrated they can be powered by a common AA battery.

In general, SSDs consume somewhere between 2 and 5 watts.

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HDD drives are renowned for getting noisy. They want a lot more electricity for chilling purposes. Within a web server which has a lot of different HDDs running continually, you’ll need a good deal of fans to make sure they’re cool – this makes them much less energy–efficient than SSD drives.

HDDs use up somewhere between 6 and 15 watts.

5. CPU Power

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SSD drives permit speedier data accessibility speeds, which generally, subsequently, permit the processor to perform file calls faster and to go back to other duties.

The typical I/O hold out for SSD drives is just 1%.

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In comparison with SSDs, HDDs enable slower file accessibility speeds. The CPU will have to wait around for the HDD to send back the requested data file, scheduling its resources in the meantime.

The typical I/O wait for HDD drives is approximately 7%.

6.Input/Output Request Times

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It is time for a few real–world cases. We competed a full platform backup on a server only using SSDs for file storage purposes. In that process, the typical service time for any I/O request stayed below 20 ms.

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Throughout the identical lab tests with the exact same web server, this time fitted out with HDDs, general performance was much slow. All through the hosting server back up process, the common service time for any I/O calls varied between 400 and 500 ms.

7. Backup Rates

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A different real–life enhancement will be the speed at which the back up has been developed. With SSDs, a hosting server back up today takes less than 6 hours by making use of our web server–optimized software.

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We implemented HDDs mainly for a couple of years and we’ve great knowledge of precisely how an HDD works. Backing up a server furnished with HDD drives is going to take about 20 to 24 hours.

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