How SSDs Help with Productivity for Businesses

If you want maximum performance for minimal cost, solid state drives (SSDs) can transform your business. SSDs can speed up existing computers and servers for a fraction of the cost of new systems. 

Work 6x faster with Crucial SSDs

How much more productive could you or your business be if you were able to work faster? While we’ve often said that 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

SSDs load programs instantly while hard drives can take longer. When employees are using their computers all day for multiple tasks, the speed SSDs provide can empower your organization to move faster. SSDs are over 15x faster than conventional hard drives.

Give your mobile workforce 2x the battery life

Today’s mobile workers are constantly on the go but can be constrained by limited battery life. SSDs are twice as energy-efficient as hard drives, which is the difference between a laptop’s battery lasting an entire flight or powering down midway through.

Protect your data with road-worthy durability

Because SSDs 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. If a computer gets dropped, 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 and thieves. 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 SSD.

SSDs in Servers: The Organizational Multiplier

SSDs 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 help minimize boot storms while increasing the numbers of virtual machines you can run.

Process 45x more database transations per minute

Enterprise-grade SSDs make it possible to process 2.5 million database transactions per minute and over 500,000 orders per minute on Microsoft® SQL Server® 2014. Compared to a test of enterprise-grade hard drives, which were able to process only 53,220 database transactions per minute.

Save on software licenses

By improving the performance of existing servers, you can use fewer servers, which means savings on annual database software licenses that often cost more than 25x the cost of the server per year. SSDs can cut license costs, and because they’re more energy-efficient, reduce the need for cooling, which can result in additional savings.

SSDs transform the pace of productivity. The 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, and 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.

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