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  "slug": "hot-warm-cold",
  "term": "Hot, warm, and cold storage tiers",
  "aliases": [
    "storage tiering",
    "temperature tiers"
  ],
  "definition": "A data-placement model where hot tiers favor latency, warm tiers favor cost per TB on disk, and cold tiers favor tape or archive media.",
  "note": "",
  "status": "shipping",
  "advantages": [],
  "limitations": [],
  "related": [
    "enterprise-ssd",
    "nearline-hdd",
    "tape",
    "lto",
    "glass-storage"
  ],
  "supersedes": [],
  "supersededBy": [],
  "firstSeen": null,
  "lastSeen": null,
  "citations": [
    {
      "id": "c1",
      "title": "Information lifecycle management",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_lifecycle_management",
      "accessed": "2026-03-26"
    }
  ]
}