Looking to make your server even more efficient? Fit in the right solid state drive (SSD) that can ensure the safety and speedy processing of your data. Here’s our guide on how you can buy the best SSD for your server.
As businesses are struggling with the chunks of data to be stored and processed, the traditional storage options are turning obsolete. Gone are the days when solid state drives (SSDs) were restricted to consumer devices. Now, they are increasingly being used with servers, replacing the traditional hard disk drives, and facilitating improved storage performance in tandem with the development of server processors.
IT managers, across the globe, are considering SSDs for servers instead of the traditional storage options. Not only are these more technologically advanced, they also help organisations stay ahead when it comes to data management systems. Although there is a high cost of deployment involved with SSDs, companies are exploring this option of storage over others, particularly in cases of specific workloads. SSDs are especially helpful in cases where speed of data access is critical, like in the e-commerce sector.
Speaking about SSDs for servers, David Chua, director of the distribution business, Asia Pacific South, HGST, says, “SSDs have become the solution of choice to enhance storage I/O throughput and accelerate application performance while reducing latency. These may be deployed at different locations in the data centre — at the server, network or for storage — as either cache or persistent storage to accelerate application performance. In host servers, SSDs with SAS, SATA or PCIe form factors can serve as local cache or storage. Networkbased appliances use SSDs as inline cache or Tier 1 storage to speed up disk arrays on the back end. SSDs can also serve as a high-performance tier in a hybrid array, or as a secondary cache behind DRAM in a storage controller.”
SSDs in servers are capable of delivering ultra high performance input/output operations. They can provide very low latency for transaction-intensive server and storage applications. Since SSDs involve low operating temperatures and low power consumption, their total cost of ownership is comparatively lower than the traditional storage options. Although SSDs in servers is still a developing phenomenon, IT managers are warming up to the concept and the SSD makers are venturing into the segment in a big way. So, if you are also planning to introduce SSDs to your servers, or even if you have been using them but are not sure if you are making a worthy investment, we will help you out. Here are some key factors that should be kept in mind by IT managers while buying SSDs for servers.