Breakthrough Performance Of Sony Ait-3 Ait-e260/s Tape Drive

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Data storage needs of the business enterprises have increased exponentially over the past decade. This rapid growth has caused major headaches for the data mangers. The IT mangers are now struggling to find new high capacity storage solutions to handle this data explosion. The organizations are now demanding tape storage solutions with more speed, reliability, media durability and low cost per GB.

Sony AIT-3 tape format is the ideal solution to deal with these massive data amounts in a cost effective manner. AIT-e260/S is a high speed and intelligent AIT-3 SCSI external drive that economically supports the demanding needs of today's data rich environments. With impressive storage capacity and remarkable media durability, the Sony AIT3 tape technology is ideally suited for small & mid-sized companies, audio/video media files, E-mail archiving, data centers and real time data acquisition.

Sony AIT-e260/S SCSI drive provides excellent data accuracy at sustained compressed rate of 31 MB per second. For regulatory compliance, Sony has employed WORM functionality to its AIT-3 technology. AIT-3 Sony format ...
... offers more choice to its clients. That is why Sony has introduced re-writable and WORM media tapes. Sony SDX3-100W features the WORM media. Non-WORM AIT-3 cartridge is Sony SDX3-100C. You can efficiently preserve 260GB compressed information on AIT 3 media tapes.

Sony is committed to double the performance and storage capability with each of new AIT tape generation, while continuing to offer backward compatibility. AIT-e260/S external drive offers its users data writing ability and instant access to both previous generations, which are AIT-2 and AIT-1. Therefore by installing the AIT-3 AIT-e260/S drive, the enterprises can benefit more by using all the three versions of AIT-3 tape with a single tape drive. Backward read and write compatible media tapes are:

Sony AIT-2 50 GB WORM tape, SDX2-50WA
Sony AIT-2 36 GB tape, SDX2-36C
Sony AIT-2 50 GB tape, SDX2-50C
Sony AIT-1 35 GB tape, SDX1-35C
Sony AIT-1 25 GB tape, SDX1-25C

Sony AIT3 drive provides its customers the luxury to migrate and upgrade their storage system without losing their accessibility to the previous stored data. Compact AIT-3 data tapes are highly dependable and are robustly built for long term protection. Sony AIT-3 tape cartridges are designed for reliable transportation of data in legal, defense, medical, government, surveillance and financial industries.

Sony AIT3 tape technology enables the organizations to standardize their sensitive and critical information in one format throughout all of their corporate levels. AIT-3 tape drive has been engineered to deliver unprecedented data protection, data integrity and intelligence to the demanding environments. An intelligent memory chip called R-MIC (remote memory in cassette) is included in AIT3 tapes for ultra high speed access to the stored files. For decreased media wear, Sony uses a robustly designed Hyper Metal tape head in its AIT drives. This durable head assures reliable data tracking and enhanced read/write performance in harsh working conditions.

Sony SDX1-CL cleaning cartridge provides excellent performance with AIT-e260/S external drive. Advanced metal evaporated (AME) media formulation has been introduced by Sony for increasing the bit density, maximum magnetic energy and ultra fine smoothness of tape recording media. All of these technical advancements made by Sony assist the AIT-3 tape format to carry out the data storage and archival functions at lowest cost.

Rob Miller is the Marketing Manager of Tape4backup and markets Sony AIT-3 Tape and Sony SDX3-100W 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
34972 Newark Blvd,# 501,Newark CA 94560
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Email: rob@tape4backup.com