A company is planning to deploy data tiring in a SAN environment. They need a solution that provides the maximum performance for the first tier and the maximum capacity for the second tier. Which driv

Near-line SATA drives offer the highest storage density and lowest cost per gigabyte among available drive types, making them the best choice for the second tier where maximum capacity is the primary goal.

Solid-state drives deliver the highest IOPS and lowest latency of any available drive technology, making them the optimal selection for the first performance tier in a SAN tiering architecture.

SAS drives offer good reliability and rotational performance but are outperformed by SSDs and do not deliver maximum capacity at the lowest cost compared to near-line SATA.

Fibre Channel drives spin at high RPM and provide low latency for mechanical media but cannot match SSD performance and are more expensive per gigabyte than near-line SATA.

FATA drives combine a Fibre Channel interface with ATA platters, offering moderate capacity and moderate performance, but are not the maximum in either category.