SSD vs HDD

SSD is much better choise than HDD because of speed, reliability and ability to solve intensive tasks.
Also they can be used as the paging files.
 
SSD is really better compare to HDD in case of performance. For a production or application servers its strongly recommend to use quality SSD drives. SSD don't have moving parts and that improves stability.
 
Pricing used to be the big issue, but the gap has narrowed to the point of only a few dollars. SSD has also had a lot of airtime now in terms of marketing, so I think customers generally expect SSD .
 
The standard choice to this day is SSD, do not choose the opposite. It is not just a matter of higher speeds, less time to access the hard drive ... but also solve bottlenecks and a more important factor, as is the physical ...


Yes! To the physical I mean, is that the SSD not having mobile parts have less percentage of error in relation to the SATA .... Just SSD good!
 
easyhostmedia said:
I agree. I just purchased a new (well refurb) PC that come with a 320GB HDD which my old PC only had a 160GB with a 500GB 2nd HDD.

so i decided to get an SSD drive (£45 for a 120GB SSD) and i fitted this as the primary drive and installed the OS and setting up so everything else is downloaded/installed and saved on the HDD (which is now the 2nd drive) and i noticed the difference straight away is booting up the PC
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Same here. 4 years ago decided to swap HDD to SSD on my laptop. One of the best decisions I have ever made. As you said: You can notice the difference straight away.
 
webling said:
So now that I'm running servers with SSD's instead of HDD's I'm thinking that the SSD's will last longer since they have no moving parts. I know others have been using SSD for awhile now and I would be interested to know if they do actually last longer and what the other benefits are.
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A solid-state drive (SSD) is a nonvolatile storage device that stores persistent data on solid-state flash memory. Solid-state drives actually aren't hard drives in the traditional sense of the term, as there are no moving parts involved.
Hard disk drive(HDD)is a data storage device that uses magnetic storage to store and retrieve digital information using one or more rigid rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material.
 
sayeda said:
A solid-state drive (SSD) is a nonvolatile storage device that stores persistent data on solid-state flash memory. Solid-state drives actually aren't hard drives in the traditional sense of the term, as there are no moving parts involved.
Hard disk drive(HDD)is a data storage device that uses magnetic storage to store and retrieve digital information using one or more rigid rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material.
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yes an SDD drive is just a Flash/Pen Drive in a larger casing, just the same way an external HDD is just an internal HDD in a case
 
webling said:
So now that I'm running servers with SSD's instead of HDD's I'm thinking that the SSD's will last longer since they have no moving parts. I know others have been using SSD for awhile now and I would be interested to know if they do actually last longer and what the other benefits are.
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It actually depends on the SSD, Controller, type of NAND, etc. SSDs are generally marketed by the number of drive-writes per day. Cheap/Consumer drives may have as low as 4% of a drive write per day - such as the Crucial M500 960GB drive - you can write 40GB/day to the drive to stay within it's expected life-cycle [72 TB over 5 years]

Higher end drives like the Intel DC S3750 1.6 TB drives can do 16 TB written *every day* for 5 years. [29,220 TB over 5 years]

Even a more apples-to-apples comparison of the DC S3700 800G drive - can do 8 TB/day and 14,610 TB over 5 years.

So yes - they can last longer - but just because they are SSD does not mean that they will.

I've had SAS15k drives that were running for 10+ years without failure that have read/written a lot of data. That said I didn't save those statistics so I can't quote them here.

MHostR said:
I use SSDs for more than 3 years on servers and on my PC. SSD last longer and it's way better in terms of performance and speed.
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Using it on a PC it will likely last far longer than in a server environment - especially a server environment where you're logging to those SSDs and writing every change to them.
 
Just like hard drives, SSDs can wear out, though for different reasons. With hard drives, it’s often just the mechanical reality of a spinning motor that wears down over time. Although there are no moving parts inside an SSD, each memory bank has a finite life expectancy — a limit on the number of times it can be written to and read from before it stops working.
 
Prefer SSD drives, it's much faster than HDD, capable to perform up to 40 thousand read/write operations per 1 second, really high speed and good performance
 
SSD much faster than HDD due to rw permission and have high loading speed.
SSD have no moving part so have high performance compare to HDD.
 
Yes. SSD is the best choice over HDD. As it gives faster access so that programs run very quickly, no moving parts in SSD generates no noise and no heat generates as in HDD. Also it consumes less power compare to HDD. And very important is it uses flash memory so life of SSD is very long.
 
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