Which of the following is a benefit of tiered storage?

Tiered storage optimizes storage costs by classifying data based on its access frequency and performance requirements. Frequently accessed 'hot' data is placed on high-performance, more expensive media like SSDs, while less frequently accessed 'cold' data is moved to lower-performance, less expensive media such as HDDs or tape, thereby significantly reducing the total cost of ownership for storage infrastructure.

Tiered storage is primarily about cost and performance optimization, not inherently providing redundancy; redundancy is a separate storage feature.

Tiered storage is a logical organization of data across different media types and does not directly relate to increasing the physical security of storage devices.

While storage is essential for disaster recovery, tiered storage itself does not enable DR; rather, DR strategies may incorporate tiered storage for cost-effective data protection.