New Advanced Sdx-900v Sony Ait-4 Drive

By Author: Rob Miller
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Sony branded data storage devices are the top choice of the leading companies that help to increase their ROI. Advanced intelligent tape, in short AIT tape, provides economical & innovative data storage solution that helps the companies to store and manage enormous data amounts at lowest cost.

Sony is proud to introduce intelligently designed AIT-4 SDX-900V drive that is based on half height (HH) 3.5-inch form factor. This new high capacity drive can write 520GB data on AIT4 tape. Sony SDX-900V drive achieves a remarkable speed of 24 Mbps (native), which is demanded by the modern data rich applications. With this impressive speed, the drive will record 86.4 GB data per hour. Sony AIT-4 drive ensures consistent performance, increased data throughput and enhanced output frequency that helps to elevate the media efficiency during heavy workloads. AIT 4 tape cartridges introduced by Sony are SDX4200CWW (rewritable AIT 4 tape), SDX4200WWW (WORM AIT 4 tape) and SDX4-200C (rewritable AIT 4 tape).

I am sure that the readers will be pleased to know that the Sony AIT4 SDX-900V drive can extract data from previous ...
... generation AIT-1, AIT-2 and AIT-3 tapes. You can write new information to AIT-3 tapes, but not to the AIT-1 and AIT-2 version. High capacity Sony SDX-900V drive ensures that the organization's valuable data is made accessible for the years to come. Read compatible tapes are:

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

SDX-900V drive creates a contamination free environment, where the tape media and head come in contact to perform cost efficient and error free read/write operations. Its super head cleaner system is another high performance feature that enhances tape head's useful life. The operational and maintenance cost of Sony SDX-900V drive is extremely low, and the data administrators will not have to do periodic drive cleanings. Sony SDX4CLLWW is the best economical AIT-4 cleaning cartridge that protects the media and drive components, thus resulting in extended working life.

High-speed AIT4 tapes are based on AME media. AME is an advanced and intelligent tape media manufacturing technology, which produces robust and superior quality media. High speed SDX-900V drive delivers high-class performance with lesser power consumption. It is the desire and need of every data manger to get high-speed data access. To fulfill this need, a 64 KB R-MIC (remote memory in cassette) is incorporated to the AIT-4 data cartridges. R-MIC chip is designed to ensure ultra high-speed file access. R-MIC technology sets AIT-4 cartridge apart from other traditional media tapes.

SDX-900V drive intelligently compresses the data files at 2.6:1. Data compression algorithm employed to the Sony SDX-900V drive is ALDC (Adaptive Lossless Data Compression). The users can be assured of high-speed backups as the SDX-900V drive can record the entire AIT-4 storage tape in one complete pass. Introduction of WORM functionality to the Sony's AIT-4 technology adds another layer to the data security.

Rob Miller is the Marketing Manager of Tape4backup and markets AIT 4 Tape and Sony SDX4-200C 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