AIT Tapes

AIT stands for ADVANCED INTELLIGENT TAPE; this technology was developed in 1990s. These tapes have high data storage capacity and deliver high performance. These tapes bring a secure data storage and backup solution to enterprises. These tapes are the economical mean of managing and securing imperative data and valuable information. The AIT Tapes aid data administrators across the globe to lower backup system complexity. Hence this lowers the need to worry concerning scalability.

The key feature of these tapes includes cost-effective rates, low power consumption, high data storage capacity and fast data transfer rate. These tapes are reliable and comply with the increasing data storage demand of enterprises. These tapes are usually 170 meters long. There are five generations of AIT tapes.

AIT 1 tape was developed in 1996 with a native data storage capacity of 35 GB (91 GB is compressed data storage capacity) and the data transfer rate is 3 MB/sec. These tapes have a built in flash memory chip to store operational information and rapid access to desired data

AIT 2 Tapes have the native data storage capacity of 50 GB and compressed data storage capacity is 130 GB with a transfer rate of 6 MB/sec. These tapes have feature of WORM

AITS 3 Tapes are designed for enterprises that intend to manage growing data in short time. The cutting-edge advantage of these tapes includes WORM functionality, fast operations and requires minimum time for backup storage. These tapes have the native data storage capacity of 100 GB and compressed capacity is 260 GB

AIT 4 Tapes has 200 GB native capacity with a transfer rate of 24 MB/sec. These tapes have backward compatibility and support prevention of data alternation by WORM functionality.

AIT 5 tapes have the native data storage capacity of 400 GB with data transfer rate of 24 MB/sec. These tapes have features of WORM, massive capacity, excellent performance, backward read and write compatibility and reliability

Sony SDX5-400C AIT-5 Tape 400/1040GB Cartridge

With the evolution in businesses, there is a parallel increase in business related data. This enormous volume of data is required to store in a secure manner. There is a danger of losing data due to various causes like operational error, contamination, physical damage, natural disasters, website bugs, viruses, software issues, mishandling, etc.

  In order to address these issues, IT specialists have introduced AIT tapes that meet the increasing demand of data backup and storage. AIT stands for ADVANCED INTELLIGENT TAPE TECHNOLOGY that delivers the ideal solution for small, medium and large businesses/enterprises.

Sony offers AIT 5 SDX5-400C tapes. These tapes are 5th generation data media tapes having massive data storage capacity, excellent performance, fast data transfer rate, durability, scalability and reliability. The native data storage capacity of these tapes is 400 GB; compressed data storage capacity is 1040 GB.

Sony AIT 5 SDX5-400C tapes are equipped with a MIC chip that stores directory and informational and has a pure magnetic layer designed for maximum capacity and optimum performance. With 3-5 inches extremely compact form of these tapes, these are enable to deliver maximum performance and are easy to integrate into workstations, libraries and workstations.

Sony SDX5-400C AIT-5 Tapes deliver following extraordinary features:

•         Massive data storage capacity(400 GB)

•         Fast data transfer rate

•         WORM functionality

•         Excellent performance

•         Reliability

•         Read and write compatibility with AIT 3, AIT 4 data media tapes

•         These tapes are equipped with Memory In Cassette chip( MIC)

        

In order to run your drives smoothly and efficiently, you need to go for the regular cleaning of these tapes. As the continuous use can cause a strain formation and air allows the dust to move in thus contaminate your drives. Avoid these things by using cleaning cartridges.

Sony is a reliable manufacturer of data media tapes, Data managers across the globe rely on Sony products due to extra-ordinary quality and cost-effective rates.