The invention provides a method for achieving layered storage and copy of data of a storage
system. The method achieves that the storage
system can automatically copy the data from a high-speed high-cost storage to a low-speed low-cost storage; or when required, the data are automatically copied from the low-speed low-cost storage to the high-speed high-cost storage. According to the method, the data are layered according to
access frequency degree, data which are accessed frequently are stored in a high-speed high-cost storage medium containing a
solid state disk, and data which dot not be accessed frequently are stored in a high-speed high-cost storage medium containing a high-capacity
serial advanced technology attachment (SATA) state disk, so that use rate and
disk array performance of a high-speed storage device are effectively improved, and total ownership cost of the disk is reduced. The method for achieving the layered storage and copy of the data of the storage
system is effective and simple in design, and capable of achieving the fact that the data flow freely on different storage mediums according to
data access frequency under the circumstance that system
resource consumption is reduced.