Question Need to buy a vps - SSD RAID 10 vs NVMe

[neon400]

Hello,

I'm looking at two vps providers, one of them says they provide NVMe storage, and the other says they provide SSD RAID 10 storage.

I do not know the differences between their performance (still trying to relate info from internet).

My use case is wordpress websites and other webhosting projects.

Kindly, could someone offer some insight? I'd really appreciate.

 

[DelenaСhelsiecain]

Both NVMe and SSD RAID 10 have their own strengths. NVMe drives are known for their speed. They connect directly to the system's PCIe bus, which allows for faster data transfer rates compared to SSDs.

On the other hand, SSD RAID 10 combines the advantages of RAID 0 (striping for speed) and RAID 1 (mirroring for redundancy). This means it offers both good performance and data protection.

For WordPress websites and general web hosting, both options should perform well. But if your projects involve heavy read/write operations or require high data redundancy, SSD RAID 10 might be a better fit. If speed is your top priority, you might lean towards NVMe.

Remember to also consider other factors like the reliability of the VPS provider and their customer service quality.

 

[neon400]

Both NVMe and SSD RAID 10 have their own strengths. NVMe drives are known for their speed. They connect directly to the system's PCIe bus, which allows for faster data transfer rates compared to SSDs.

On the other hand, SSD RAID 10 combines the advantages of RAID 0 (striping for speed) and RAID 1 (mirroring for redundancy). This means it offers both good performance and data protection.

For WordPress websites and general web hosting, both options should perform well. But if your projects involve heavy read/write operations or require high data redundancy, SSD RAID 10 might be a better fit. If speed is your top priority, you might lean towards NVMe.

Remember to also consider other factors like the reliability of the VPS provider and their customer service quality.

Thank you for your response.

I understand what you say.
Altho, do you have a sort of idea you can provide me on the following matter?

I'd like content-fetching to be fast on the websites, such as images. Do you have a guess on how fast a NVMe storage would do it than a SSD raid 10?

Also, do databases exist on storage? If so, I'd prefer NVMe for faster inputs and outputs to/from the database, I think.

 

[geofelt]

Raid, in any form is not a performance enhancer. Not even raid-0.
Raid is used to provide insurance specifically against a drive failure.

NVME is an access protocol that allows faster sequential processing of drives. Some 3x to 10x faster than sata in benchmarks.
But, that is a bit of an illusion since most work is done randomly and even sequential work is interlaced with cpu processing.
Lastly performance will be based on the slowest link in the chain which is likely the internet connection.

The claims are mostly marketing, I think.
Perhaps you could try out both and then decide.

 

[kanewolf]

Hello,

I'm looking at two vps providers, one of them says they provide NVMe storage, and the other says they provide SSD RAID 10 storage.

I do not know the differences between their performance (still trying to relate info from internet).

My use case is wordpress websites and other webhosting projects.

Kindly, could someone offer some insight? I'd really appreciate.

This is a question of how much total space do you need? Are you deploying a database backend for these website(s) ?
What is the REQUIRED response times for your websites?
In general, I would get the RAID10 because the VPS provider can swap a failed drive without impacting your uptime.

 

[neon400]

This is a question of how much total space do you need? Are you deploying a database backend for these website(s) ?
What is the REQUIRED response times for your websites?
In general, I would get the RAID10 because the VPS provider can swap a failed drive without impacting your uptime.

Both providers offer a enough amount of storage. Though SSD RAID 10 one's provide larger which may remain unused.

The databases will be on the same server. Are database I/O speeds affected by NVMe/non-NVMe?

Required response time would be, faster the better 🤔

I'm deciding to get the server with SSD RAID 10, as the server provides some more dedicated cores than the ones with NVMe (6 rather than 4, 14 rather than 10 - amd epycs).

 

[geofelt]

Which provider provides the more robust internet performance?
That is likely to be more important.

 

[neon400]

Which provider provides the more robust internet performance?
That is likely to be more important.

The first one provides mentions a connection of 1Gbps, and the second one mentions 2.5Gbps. I believe the 1Gbps would be pretty enough as thats what most vps providers provide as per my searches online.

 

[USAFRet]

I posit that it makes no difference on your end. Anything beyond spinning HDD is fine.
And not nearly enough info to make a recommendation.

Many other things come into play, before nitpicking about various types of solid state.

CPU, RAM, how many users, how many concurrent users, what is their failover procedure, bandwidth and I/O throughput, expected downtime(hours per day/month/year), etc, etc, etc...