Newly Designed Sony Scsi Ait-3 Internal Tape Drive

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Strict regulations and increasing challenges of business continuity have forced the business enterprises to revise their strategy and approach so that they can comply with the demanding legislative mandates.

Sony has specifically developed the AIT storage format, which has a proven track record. AIT tape technology assists the organizations to efficiently manage their information life cycle at lowest cost. Sony's AIT-3 tape version is ideally developed to serve the needs of workgroups, data centers, small / medium businesses and data rich environments. AIT-3 tape products developed by Sony include tape cartridges and tape drives.

AIT-3 Sony Drive, part number AIT-i260/S, features breakthrough technologies that help to satisfy the growing demands of modern enterprises. Media Capacity offered by AIT-3 Sony drive reaches 100GB. This can be extended with 2.6:1 compression. So after the compression, the data administrators can record more amount of information, which is 260GB.

WORM (write once read many) is a useful and powerful technique, which prevents over-writing, changes and tampering to the preserved ...
... data. This powerful technology has been employed to the AIT-i260/S Sony drive. Focusing on the needs of organizations, Sony manufactures 2 different forms of AIT3 backup tapes. These are WORM and rewritable tapes. SDX3-100W tape has a WORM enabled media and SDX3-100C AIT-3 cartridge allows data re-writing.

High speed Sony AIT-i260/S drive provides 100% surety that your previous investment will be protected. The data which you have recorded on the previous AIT tapes, including AIT 1 and AIT 2, can be easily retrieved by the AIT-i260/S AIT-3 drive. New data can also be written to AIT2 and AIT1 tapes with the AIT-i260/S tape drive. Sony AIT-i260/S drive can perfectly read / write the following tapes:

Sony AIT2 tape, part number SDX3-100W
Sony AIT 3 WORM tape, part number SDX3-100C
Sony AIT2 tape, part number SDX2-36C
Sony AIT 2 WORM tape, part number SDX2-50W
Sony AIT-2 tape, part number SDX2-50C
Sony AIT 1 tape, part number SDX1-35C
Sony AIT 1 tape, part number SDX1-25C

For cleaning purpose, you can use Sony's SDX1-CL cleaning cartridge. SDX1-CL cleaning cartridge can also be used with the AIT-2 and AIT-1 drives. High performance AIT-i260/S Sony drive has a newly designed read/write head, which provides unmatched data reliability up to 50,000 tape contact hours. Smooth and tough base film of AIT-3 tapes has the ability to deliver excellent results with an average of 30,000 passes. Longer working life of both AIT-3 drive and tape cartridges will help to secure the IT investments and result in improved ROI.

Sony has raised the transfer speed of Sony AIT-i260/S tape drive to 12 Mbps, which is needed by the data rich environments. Sony is famous for its innovative and high performance technological solutions. Sony has employed a new technology called super head cleaner system in its AIT-i260/S AIT-3 drive. The main purpose of this system is to reduce the need for periodic cleaning. With the help of this high performance head cleaner technique, the AIT-i260/S drive delivers 400,000 POH MTBF, which makes it the industry's leading tape drive format. AIT-i260/S tape drive features the option of 68-Pin Single ended Connector and ultra 160 SCSI interface.

Rob Miller is the Marketing Manager of Tape4backup and markets AIT-3 Tape and Sony SDX3-100C Tape. He has vast experience in the marketing and trading industries and has been helping buyers who have the backup needs and guide clients about the technology.

Rob Miller
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Email: rob@tape4backup.com