Traditional hard disk drives (HDDs) use spinning magnetic media to store data. Compared with SSD, HDD is slower to read and write, takes longer to access, and has the benefit of lower cost per GB of storage.
Solid-state drives (SSDs) are usually used to store data in flash memory, with SSDs offering faster read/write speeds and shorter access times (lower latency) than HDDs, with the disadvantage of higher cost per GB of storage.
However, EBuildHost’s web hosting plans use a mix of traditional hard drives and SSDs, giving the server the advantages of both SSD caching and HDD capacity.