Unprecedented Performance Of Sony AIT-i1040SLE AIT-5 Tape Drive
By: Tape4backup
Submitted: 2010-04-22 04:34:03 | Word Count: 544
Sony is famous for its technical expertise and high quality consumer electronics and media storage products. Sony has developed AIT advanced intelligent tape media technology to meet the storage needs of its customers in a cost effective manner. Sony AIT-i1040SLE is a high speed SCSI internal tape drive, which represents the AIT-5 media tape technology. Sony AIT-5 tape drive can record native 400GB data on AIT 5 tape cartridge. Data security level of AIT-5 tape format has been raised by Sony with the employment of WORM (write once read many) mechanism. Sony AIT-i1040SLE SCSI drive features high speed data rate of 24MB/s.
High speed Sony AIT-5 tape media cartridges and drives are the foremost choice of the enterprises. Sony AIT5 drives are ideally engineered for greater read/write reliability, low cost backup operations and unparalleled performance. Sony SDX5-400W is a WORM enabled AIT-5 data tape, and the Sony SDX5-400C tape does not have the WORM capability. Sony AIT-i1040SLE AIT5 is the best tape drive which secures your I.T investments. With the deployment of Sony AIT-5 drive, you can also use the backup media tapes of AIT-3EX, AIT3 and AIT-4. The backward compatibility includes both data read/write capability including the previous three AIT generations. The backward compatible AIT tapes are listed below:
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Sony AIT-3, SDX3-100C backup tape
Sony AIT3, SDX3-100W data tape
Sony AIT-3EX, SDX3X150CWW tape
Sony AIT-4, SDX4200CWW tape
Sony AIT4, SDX4-200C media tape
Sony AIT-4, SDX4200WWW tape
High performance AIT-5 tape format compresses the data with the help of Adaptive Lossless Data Compression at 2.6:1. At this rate, the media capacity of high speed AIT-5 media tape extends to 1.04 TB. Greater capacity of Sony AIT5 backup tape technology has helped to reduce the human intervention, rotation and handling of data tapes. Lesser storage tapes ultimately save costs, and enhance efficiency of data management process.
To further raise the performance level, Sony has added three new innovative technologies to the AIT-i1040SLE tape drive. These innovative and high performance features are dynamic tracking, magneto resistive tape heads and AME-III media formulation. Highly durable Sony AIT-5 data tapes feature the high performance AME media. In metal evaporated mechanism, a tough DLC (diamond like carbon) material is coated over the evaporated pure cobalt.
In addition to all these innovative technologies, Sony has incorporated advanced head cleaner technology in all of its AIT backup tape drives. This head cleaning system is automatically activated after reaching a certain threshold of tape errors. The combination of super head cleaner process and the AME media formulation result in unparalleled media durability. Therefore the data administrators won’t have to periodically use cleaning tapes. Sony SDX5-CL is an efficient and reliable cleaning tape designed specifically for AIT- drives. Sony SDX5-CL provides excellent results with all Sony LTO-5 drives.
Sony AIT-i1040SLE drive comes with Sony SDX5-400C cartridge, white Bezel Kit, warranty card and Symantec Backup Exec. The optional accessories include Sony SDX-400W WORM tape and SDX5-CL cleaning cartridge.
Author Resource:-
Jessica McIntosh is the Marketing Manager of Tape4backup and markets Sony AIT5 Tape and Sony SDX4200CWW Tape. She 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.
