Short Answer: No Here is the redis author's blog post about that: http://antirez.com/news/52 http://antirez.com/news/52 My guess is that SSD's would be benefi

Short Answer: No Here is the redis author's blog post about that: http://antirez.com/news/52 http://antirez.com/news/52 My guess is that SSD's would be beneficial in ensuring the Append-Only-File and RDB snapshots are faster.