Unprecedented Storage Efficiency Offered By Sony Ait 4, Sdx4-200c Tape Solution

Your precious corporate data is vulnerable to software bugs

, theft, viruses and human errors. Backup storage is a smart approach that makes data available in event of unexpected disaster. The data administrators are challenged with developing an affective data protection strategy to support the relentless data growth, while dealing with shrinking IT budgets.

Sony developed the highly compact AIT (advanced intelligent tape) format to help IT managers overcome their data growth challenges. AIT tape format offers extremely high recording density and longer useful life, making it the first choice of SMBs across the world.

Sony SDX-900V represents a super-fast AIT-4 drive that delivers unparalleled performance in storage intensive organizations. SDX-900V is an internal drive and is based on a space-saving 3.5-inch form factor. Its SCSI ultra160 LVD/SE host interface helps the users to seamlessly integrate the SDX-900V internal drive in a variety of departmental servers and demanding I.T environments.

The 4th generation AIT tapes developed by Sony are SDX4-200C (rewritable tape) and SDX4200WWW (WORM tape). With WORM technology, the customers of Sony AIT4 format can satisfy the government regulatory mandates such as Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) and Sarbanes-Oxley Act etc. WORM mechanism prevents over-writings, modifications and erasure of stored data, thus providing a reliable solution to common operating errors and ensuring superior data integrity. Increased recording density enables the compact Sony AIT4 cartridge to retain 200GB information. Small sized AIT 4 tapes save more shelf space and deliver an excellent archival life of 30 years.

SDX-900V drives uncompressed data throughput speed is 24 MB per second. SDX-900V tape drive provides a trouble-free path to the users of AIT3, AIT 2 and AIT1 formats. All of these prior AIT tape generations are read-compatible with SDX-900V, AIT 4 drive. Additionally, the users can also perform write operations on AIT 3 cartridge.

SDX-900V, AIT 4 drive is backward read compatible with the following Sony AIT tapes:

AIT3 tapes

SDX3-100W, SDX3-100C

AIT2 tapes

SDX2-36C, SDX2-50W, SDX2-50C

AIT1 tapes

SDX1-25C, SDX1-35C

Data compressing ratio of AIT drives has been increased by Sony to an exceptional 2.6:1, which further adds to its compelling attributes. That means the media capacity of Sonys AIT cartridge increases to 520 gigabytes in compressed form. Base film of AIT4 cartridge is extremely robust and features a strong protective coating layer, which minimizes the tape friction and leads to dramatically reduced tape deterioration. As a result, the drive will require less periodic use of cleaning tape cartridge. SDX-900V drives uses Sonys SDX4CLLWW, cleaning cartridge.

Sonys tape portfolio is the largest within the industry and is the leading brand across all backup tape technologies. Some of the leading Sony-branded tapes are:

LTX200G, Sony lto 2 tape

DGDAT72, Sony DAT72 tape

DL4TK88, Sony dlt-iv tape

SONYTR-1,Sony TR-1 Travan tape

dgd150p, Sony DDS4 tape

LTX1500G, Sony LTO5 tape

Sony has incorporated R-MIC (remote memory in cassette) technology which is more reliable and efficient than traditional bar-code methods. R-MIC is a small chip which comes standard in Sony AIT 4 tapes. It helps to accelerate the data searching speed and enhance the storage efficiency in library environments.

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by: Jessica McIntosh

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