Sony Ait-4, Sdx4-200c Backup Tape Delivers Excellent Performance With Sdx-900v Drive

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Long term data storage demands, tough business challenges, tight budgets and threat of data loss and time-critical applications have organizations clamoring for space-efficient, durable and low-cost data storage technologies. Today’s data-rich SMBs call for AIT backup tape technology that has been invented by Sony, the global tape media giant. AIT technology is a culmination of Sony’s superior engineering expertise and vast technical experience in tape storage industry. AIT cartridge is almost 33% percent the size of rival half-inch backup tapes, which makes it a big hitter in space-constrained IT environments. Therefore, you can seamlessly store more AIT tapes on less shelf space, and efficiently create backups of the massive corporate databases.

Sony’s fourth generation AIT4 solution can be confidently installed in high end workstations, government agencies, medium sized businesses, small computing systems, servers and enterprise workgroups. Sony SDX-900V is an internal SCSI tape drive that provides cost-effective backup performance and long term reliability with AIT4 tape media. SDX-900V tape drive achieves ...
... ultra-high recording density, which enables it to record native 200 GB information onto an AIT4 cartridge. The drive has been designed to provide high speed backups at an exceptional speed of 86.4GB/hour. Sony SDX4-200C, AIT4 cartridge is built tough to withstand repeated load-unload cycles and achieve longer working life of 30,000 passes.

Organizations have to ensure compliance with the industry and government legislations. Sony AIT4 technology can help you with its extremely reliable “write once, read many” WORM mechanism. It keeps the stored information safe throughout its storage period. WORM prevents malicious data erasures and does not allow modifications or over-writings. The current users of AIT1, AIT2 and AIT 3 tape technologies can seamlessly and cost-effectively upgrade to AIT4 format. The SDX-900V tape drive offers a remarkable three-generation backward compatibility. SDX-900V drive can read all the previous three AIT generations, plus provide write-compatibility as well with AIT3 media. As a result, your previous AIT investment extends and you can easily standardize your company-wide backup storage technology.

IT managers looking for superior storage value and higher return on investment can trust AIT 4 format. AIT technology offers higher compression rate than its competitors. AIT tape drives deliver 2.6:1 compression. As this rate, the AIT-4 tape’s recording capacity extends to 520 GB.

Other popular Sony’s backup tapes that are widely used in SMB workplaces are DAT/DDS, LTO ultrium, DLT, SDLT and Travan tape. The following Sony tapes are a reliable choice for SMBs:

LTX200G, Sony LTO ultirum2 tape
DL4TK88, Sony DLT-4 tape
QTRNS8-A4, Sony Travan TR4 tape
DGDAT72, Sony DAT72 backup tape
LTX400G, Sony LTO ultrium3 tape
SDLT1-320, Sony SDLT1 tape
DGD-150P, Sony DDS4 tape
DGDAT160, Sony DAT160 tape cartridge

SDX-900V tape drive offers super-fast data access (average 44 seconds) and quick data transfer rate of 24MB/sec. In addition, the 400,000 hours MTBF rating of SDX-900V drive is also the highest in its class. So the small and medium businesses struggling with backup and management of mission-critical data can count on Sony AIT4 technology.

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Frank Miller is the Marketing Manager of Backuptape and markets AIT 4 tape and SDX4-200C. 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.

Frank Miller
3984 Washington Blvd #503 Fremont CA 94538
Tel: 888-686-8273
Fax: 888-449-5050
Email: sales@backuptapes.net