Tiered Storage SDK

The File System Tiered Storage Filter Driver SDK provides a highly efficient data storage technique that enables automatic movement of data between high-cost and low-cost storage media. This system comes in handy because high-speed storage devices such as hard disk drive arrays are more expensive per byte stored than slower devices such as optical discs and magnetic tape drives.

The Tiered Storage Filter system aims to store the majority of a company's data on slower devices, reducing overall storage costs. This system creates a stub for and replaces each migrated file in the fast disk drives. A stub file created on the local system behaves and looks like a regular file.

Whenever a Windows application or user access this migrated file stub, the Windows operating system transparently directs a file access request to the Tiered Storage Filter driver. This driver retrieves the full file from the repository it was migrated to.

Overall, the File System Tiered Storage Filter Driver SDK is an excellent software that offers an efficient data storage technique that eliminates the need for expensive high-speed storage devices, reducing a company's overall storage costs.