STORAGE METHOD AND APPARATUS WHICH ARE BASED ON DATA CONTENT IDENTIFICATION

The embodiments of the present invention provide a storage method and a storage apparatus which are based on data content identification. Through the storage method and the storage apparatus which are based on data content identification and provided in the embodiments of the present invention, the data from the host is received, the content of the data is scanned to obtain format characteristics of the data, and the characteristics are matched with format characteristics in a content characteristic base to determine attributes of the data, and the data is sorted and stored according to the data attributes, so that a storage device can obtain attributes of the data to be stored and optimize the data, which improves data storage performance of the storage device.