# Vultr SSD vs NVME

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/vultr-ssd-vs-nvme/162609>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [August 31, 2020, 10:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/vultr-ssd-vs-nvme/162609 "2020-08-31T22:45:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Eduardo\_Braga](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/eduardo_braga/32/110348_2.png) [@Eduardo\_Braga](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Eduardo_Braga)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 10:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/vultr-ssd-vs-nvme/162609/1 "2020-08-31T22:45:36Z")

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I have doubts about the 2 VPS, does it make a lot of difference to the common ssd for NVME?

**NVME**

> **[Vultr High Frequency Compute](https://www.vultr.com/products/high-frequency-compute/)**
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> High-speed virtual machines powered by the fastest CPU architecture in the Vultr lineup.

**SSD**

> **[Cloud Compute On-Demand | Instant Deployment & Global Reach](https://www.vultr.com/products/cloud-compute/)**
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> Experience ultra-fast, secure, and scalable Cloud Compute instances with Vultr. Deploy in seconds and optimize your workloads with global infrastructure.

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**Author:** ![Solari](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/solari/32/186728_2.png) [@Solari](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Solari)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2020, 3:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/vultr-ssd-vs-nvme/162609/2 "2020-09-01T03:48:36Z")

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Just for kicks I recently upgraded from Vultr’s regular Cloud $5 instance to their High Frequency one at $6 to see if I could tell any difference in speed and such for an extra $1/mo ; )

I haven’t run any benchmark tests but I can tell Discourse is faster, the upgrade process was quicker and so were backups.

So from an “eyeballing” perspective, I’m seeing quite a bit of difference from the upgrade.

Ray

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**Author:** ![marianord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/marianord/32/90502_2.png) [@marianord](https://meta.discourse.org/u/marianord)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2020, 12:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/vultr-ssd-vs-nvme/162609/3 "2020-09-01T12:49:44Z")

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Technically there should be a really big advantage of using NVMe, from what I have been able to test generally the NMVes offered by Cloud providers are at least 10x faster which would improve a lot of things.

Important to note that in some benchmarks I did I found the Cloud NVMe slower than a local SATA SSD (like the SSD in my PC), but still an improvement.

Adding to the NVMe change, Discourse gets a really good speed bump from the higher frequency, so that helps too.