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What is the benefit of hosting a file hosting server on SSD’s? Is your downloading speed faster when you download a file from a server that hosts their files on SSD Drives? If you host your files on SSD vrs the cloud, assuming that both people are downloading from the same location using different services (SSD and Cloud) which would download faster? I’m not even going to talk about standard HDD because it’s clear that R/W speed are superior correct? Thank you for your time reading these questions. These questions have been bugging me for awhile and I really would like them answered or explained as I’m not the smartest guy in the room.
Answer #1
SSD has no benefits on internet speeds so I assume its the processing time? I aint the smartest guy either but I reckon if I typed it into google Id find out pretty quick.
Answer #2
Yes SSDs are faster than traditional HDDs but the reality is, it depends on how much load is on the server. If the server has enough RAM, it can easily cache the files from the HDD. In fact a lot of servers today, use SSDs as a cache layer and continue to store data on HDDs simply because it’s still cheaper to do so (on a per gigabyte basis).
I’m not sure exactly what you meant by Cloud vs SSD since the cloud has to be back by real hardware. So I’m not sure how I can answer that comparison.
Answer #3
SSD allows file read and write to be faster, but that has minimal affect when you’re simply downloading a file from the server. Bandwidth speed on the server (and the downloaders end), proximity to the server and load on the server are the primary factors for download speed.
Answer #4
The true goal of benefit for the downloader is of course faster download speed.
In reality, we face few levels of what called ‘bottleneck’.
I’m posting to add more details than the others repeating themselves..
Both sides must be capable in order to take effect.
Server side:
1. Storage Speed
For ex. While SATA / IDE / SCSI drives are capable of going up to 15mb read/write speeds (and of course there are more higher and better).
The SSD can go up to 350mb read/write speeds and above.
2. Internet bandwidth
Most countries have low upload bandwidth compared to the download speed.
At-least for home users.
When you put it on a server it depends on how much you pick and choose to pay.
Let’s say you managed to get a 100/100 MBIT server which is roughly 10mb upload speed and 10mb download speed.
In that case, an SSD drive won’t be able to transfer more DATA to the downloader because of Internet bandwidth that will not allow more than 10MB, shows where the bottleneck is.
3. Server load
For this we’ll take the higher Internet connection of 1GBIT, 100mb upload and 100mb download, probably very expensive in any country.
SSD Drive with up to 350mb r/w.
Internet still capable only to 100mb transfer at a time to a single user.
What if we place 3 downloaders on the same file? 100/3 .. 33mb download avg.
True, still faster than SATA / IDE / SCSI, but don’t forget the Internet costs.
Dreamy Final ex. Let’s say you got a fancy connection of 1TB/1TB which is 100gb upload and 100gb download and SSD with 350mb r/w speeds. (With the correct supported cables and firmware, switch, router etc)
The server will be able to upload 350mb a second from the SSD drive.
The big question here is the Client side:
will the downloader could download it?
Most home users are at top of 100mbit connection (10mb a sec)
Will the downloader have SSD? his drive has to write that DATA down so if he has standard SATA he won’t be able to write it on 350mb a second.
Hit up more questions if you misunderstand anything..
Answer #5
What is the benefit of hosting a file hosting server on SSD's?
I don’t think the big file hosts use Solid State Drives for storage due to the expense and size of the SSD’s.
Are you looking for a smaller scale of file hosting?