What Are SSD’s

InMotion Hosting servers are now using SSDs. SSDs or Solid State Drives are a type of hard drive that uses no mechanical parts. The memory mechanism is much like RAM with the difference being that data is saved in nonvolatile flash memory. “Nonvolatile” means that the data saved in the memory will not disappear when the device is turned off. Computers of all types normally have two types of memory: volatile and nonvolatile memory. Volatile memory is usually called RAM while the non-volatile memory has traditionally been the hard drive or other media storage types (e.g. USB thumb drives, diskettes, and writeable optical media such as DVDs and CDROMs). The main advantage of using an SSD is its performance. Since there are no moving parts, access and reading times are much faster than you would find in a non-SSD hard drive. Since data can be accessed faster, then websites are faster when using SSDs.