Sony SDX-900V Tape Drive Is the Best Choice for AIT-4 Tape Media

Viruses, system errors, software bugs and powerful failures can erase or damage your data. It is really a big disaster if you do not have any off-line backup data to restore from. That is why data backups have become vital for organizational sustainability.

Sony is a global leader in portable computing, consumer electronics and backup recording media. Sony understands the demands and constraints of today's business enterprises. Sony invented a highly compact, smart and cost-efficient AIT (advanced intelligent tape) format to help meet the growing needs of SMB industry.

Sony's fourth generation AIT-4 tape solution is a big hitter in midrange storage management, small enterprises, government agencies and transportable storage applications. Sony SDX-900V is a high speed AIT-4 drive that features 3.5-inch form factor. SDX-900V tape drive delivers highest recording density in its class, and provides compatibility with all AIT generations ranging from AIT-1 to AIT-4. Backward media compatibility of Sony SDX-900Vdrive is simply rivaled as it is compatible with four AIT versions. It can read AIT-1 and AIT-2 media, and is fully write/read compatible with AIT-4 and AIT-3 tape cartridges. You can backup 200GB native data onto a single AIT-4 tape.

Protection of stored data from unauthorized access is essential for ensuring long term reliability. That is why Sony is also offering WORM enabled AIT-4 tape, part number SDX4200WWW, which prevents accidental over-writings and data deletions. SDX4-200C is the part number of Sony's AIT4 rewritable cartridge. Compact AIT-4 tapes allow for more efficient utilization of data-center space. You can store more quantity of Sony AIT-4 tapes on less shelf space. Sony SDX-900Vdrive can read/write data at a throughput speed of 24Mbps (uncompressed), thus providing a super-fast backup rate of 86.4GB/hour.

It is recommended that you should preserve at least one copy of backup data off-site to ensure reliable disaster recovery. In this way, you can also avoid un-intentional or malicious data tampering, which can occur with on-line data storage. Sony AIT-4 tape is built tough to tolerate bumps, shocks and provide resistance against unfavorable working conditions. So, the users can confidently backup their precious data onto Sony AIT-4 tapes and transport them to remote locations.

Other Sony-branded backup tapes that are ideal for medium and small businesses are:

LTX400GWW, Sony LTO-3 tape

DGDAT160, Sony DAT-160 tape

LTX200GWW, Sony LTO-2 tape

DGDAT72, Sony DAT-72 tape

LTX100G, Sony LTO-1 tape

DGD-150P, Sony DDS-4 tape

Thanks to the advanced metal evaporated (AME) technology, the recording medium of Sony AIT-4 cartridge sheds significantly lesser debris. As a result, the tape drive will need less periodic cleanings. Sony SDX4CLLWW, cleaning cartridge has been designed for AIT 4 drives. Sony SDX-900V drive also features an automated cleaning system that increases the recording efficiency and extends the working life of drive head and tape media. The Sony AIT4 tape can withstand up to 30,000 passes, whereas the average useful life of SDX-900V drive's head is 50,000 tape contact hrs.

Sony AIT-4 tape solution protects your sensitive business data better than any other tape format.

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Frank Millar is the Marketing Manager of Backuptape and markets AIT-4 tape and LTX400GWW. 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.

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Unprecedented Performance of Sony AIT-i1040SLE AIT-5 Tape Drive

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.

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.

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.

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