Solid state drives (SSDs) have proven to be a cost-effective solution for maximizing performance in business operations. By integrating SSDs into your computing infrastructure, you can significantly enhance the speed and responsiveness of both existing computers and servers. This performance boost comes at a fraction of the cost compared to other hardware upgrades or system replacements, making SSDs a compelling investment for businesses looking to optimize efficiency without breaking the bank. The improved data transfer speeds and reduced latency contribute to enhanced overall productivity, ensuring that your business operations run smoothly and efficiently.
How much more productive could you or your business be if you were able to work faster? That’s the question we asked in the Crucial Performance Lab. While we’ve often said that external SSDs radically increase productivity, we haven’t been able to say by how much, until now.
SSDs in desktops and laptops: the individual multiplier
Empower your office team with 15x the speed
Solid state drives have proven to be a cost-effective solution for maximizing performance in business operations. By integrating SSDs into your computing infrastructure, you can significantly enhance the speed and responsiveness of both existing computers and servers. Crucial’s solid state drives are over 15x faster than conventional hard drives.1 This performance boost comes at a fraction of the cost compared to other hardware upgrades or system replacements, making SSDs a compelling investment for businesses looking to optimize efficiency without breaking the bank. The improved data transfer speeds and reduced latency contribute to enhanced overall productivity, ensuring that your business operations run smoothly and efficiently.
Give your mobile workforce 2x the battery life
In the fast-paced world of today's mobile workforce, where professionals are constantly on the move, the challenge of limited battery life can significantly impact productivity. Solid state drives present an advantage in this scenario, being twice as energy efficient as traditional HDDs. This efficiency translates into a substantial difference, potentially determining whether a laptop's battery lasts the entire duration of a flight or forces an untimely power-down midway through. The reduced power consumption of SSDs not only extends the lifespan of a device's battery but also contributes to a more sustainable and reliable mobile computing experience, ensuring that professionals can stay connected and productive during their on-the-go endeavors without the hindrance of abrupt power limitations.2
Crucial P3 Plus Gen4 NVMe SSD
Protect your data with road-worthy durability
Because solid state drives don’t have small moving parts, they’re significantly more durable than hard drives, which can’t withstand as much wear and tear. This is important because mobile workers are often traveling and luggage gets tossed around. If a computer gets dropped or jostled before a major client presentation, the hard drive can fail, but the structural design of an SSD allows it to keep working.
Secure confidential customer and business data
Everything stored on business systems is vulnerable to hackers, thieves, and the competition. Hard drives typically support only software-based encryption, which can be hacked. A better way to protect sensitive data is to encrypt it at the hardware level on an solid state drive.
SSDs in servers: the organizational multiplier
Solid state drives enhance laptop and desktop computers, but they’re even more powerful in servers. Everyone gets the benefits of faster application loading, faster database access, and faster online transaction processing.
Enable all employees to quickly access data
Everyone needs access to files that live on servers. However, when too many employees are trying to simultaneously access data, it can stretch hard drives beyond their limits. When hard drives are replaced with solid state drives, everyone in the organization can quickly access what they need to get things done.
Increase the number of virtual machines
When virtual machines, virtualized applications, and operating systems are stored on enterprise SSDs, the systems perform significantly faster. Solid state drives also help minimize boot storms, while increasing the numbers of virtual machines you can run.
Micron® 2400 NVMe™ M.2
Process 45x more database transactions per minute
Enterprise-grade solid state drives make it possible to process 2.5 million database transactions per minute and over 500,000 orders per minute on Microsoft® SQL Server® 2014.3 Compare that to a test of enterprise-grade hard drives, which were able to process only 53,220 database transactions per minute.4
The bottom line
Solid state drives transform the pace of productivity. Wait times seem inconsequential, but over the day they can add up and limit what can get done. Instead of waiting for your computer to start and load apps, you can be getting tasks done. Serve more customers. Ship more orders. Crunch more data. Do everything in your digital workday faster – and without delay. Then take it a step further and imagine that not only are you able to work faster, but so is everyone else in your business. Your organization is able to move faster, serve customers better, and outpace the competition. When businesses make the migration to SSDs, they overcome the biggest time drain they didn’t know existed: mechanical hard drives.
1 Performance level based on comparative benchmark scores of the Crucial BX100 SSD and the Western Digital® Caviar Blue™ WD10EZEX internal hard drive. Actual performance level may vary based on benchmark used and individual system configuration. Test setup: 1TB Crucial BX100 SSD and 1TB Western Digital Caviar Blue internal hard drive, both tested on an Intel® DZ87RL motherboard, Intel i7-4770K 3.50GHz processor, BIOS Rev. 0327, and Windows® 8 Pro 64-bit operating system using PCMark® Vantage HDD test suite. Results based on internal benchmark testing conducted December 2014.
2 Active average power use comparison based on published specs of the 500GB Crucial BX100 SSD and the 1TB Western Digital Caviar Blue internal hard drive. Both products’ active average power ratings were taken from manufacturer datasheets.
3 Results based on internal testing where a Micron® P420m SSD was configured in a Dell® PowerEdge R730xd server (2X E5-2690 v3 CPUs, 136GB DRAM) running Microsoft® Windows 2012 R2 (Data Center Edition)—a SQL Server Database “appliance” system. For simplicity, the Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Enterprise Edition data files, tempdb files, and log files were all located on the single P420m formatted NTFS. With this single server/ single P420m PCIe SSD configuration, 160 virtual users generated a maximum of 2,528,820 transactions per minute (TPM) and 549,456 new order transactions per minute. Testing conducted in April 2015.
4 Based on external testing of SQL Server 2014 running on a 2x E7-4820 v2 CPUs server with 128GB DRAM. Log and data files were stored on four HDDs and sixteen HDDs (respectively) and performance was compared when storing log and data files entirely on SSDs. Based on testing conducted in the TP675.1-1503US, March 2015 technology paper.
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