A number of large internet companies such as Dropbox, Facebook and Amazon rumored to be using the medium of SSD (Solid State Drive) and replaced the hard drive that is currently in use in their data center.
Solid State Drive (SSD) is a storage medium that serves as a hard drive using the flash chip as the medium.
What are the advantages of SSD is compared to hard drive to attract much larger companies such as Facebook, Dropbox, Amazon and Microsoft?
SSD has many advantages compared to the hard disk as a read and write speed is super fast, the size of the slimmer and lighter and more power-efficient.
With numerous advantages belonging to large companies, obviously the SSD will soon switch to using Ssds for storage in their data center.
Google, the search engine giant has been more used to using SSD to replace hardisk gradually in the data centernya, and then followed by Microsoft, Mozilla, Wika and now followed the Amazon, Facebook and Dropbox.
"They handle files and meta data stored on Dropbox, where you can share and revise all your data in there.
On the side of the meta data that is required in high-performance database and SSD is one solution, "said Kevin Modzelewski, a software engineer Dropbox.
Popular social networking site, Facebook, is also rumored to start switching to use the SSD as a storage medium in the data centernya.
Performance of SSD is very fast and far exceed the performance of the hard disk is badly needed for Facebook to serve users.
"We want to be able to serve our users quickly and SSD can provide very high performance to service user requests. This is a significant increase in its entirety for users, "said Frank Frankovsky, the watchdog hardware design Facebook.
Pioneer online store that is famous for its tablet products, Amazon, Kindle Fire million were migrated using SSD to replace hard drive for media storage in the data center.
One of the weaknesses of the current hard drive SSD compared is the price, a 300 GB capacity SSD costs $ 500 while the hard drive with a capacity of 3000GB or ten times lipatnya just for $ 350.
But as time went on, the user will be more and more and the SSD price will also be getting a bargain.
Arif s.Driessen is the Editorial, Lifestyle, for Digital Works @ The Driessen Post.
