Database speed at scale best with SSDs

Data collection and processing is exploding, so how can systems keep up the demand? The economics for the total cost of ownership for SSDs is increasingly favored over traditional spindle-based drives. Significant time is saved storing, processing, and provisioning data storage needs. Even now reliability is on par with spinning disks. SSDs are especially cost-effective over building out in-memory databases. To keep up with current and future demands, these new disks are looking solid.

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