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Sony Super-AIT Tape Technology
S-AIT Media
With hard disk drive capacities growing dramatically, today's enterprises increasingly look for magnetic tape solutions with complementary capacity and performance. S-AIT provides a new benchmark for capacity and performance in today's tape solutions. S-AIT is based on advanced helical-scan recording technology, which is known for its high data density, outstanding data transfer performance, as well as reliability and durability advantages. S-AIT's use of helical-scan technology results in much higher areal recording densities than what is possible through existing linear recording products. And by utilizing the media length and cartridge size of linear products, S-AIT is able to store up to five times the capacity in the same space.
S-AIT's extraordinary capacity and performance in a small form-factor design offer a clear advantage over other tape solutions and an ideal complement to the growth of hard disk drive capacities in enterprise markets.
| Technology Comparison |
| Drive Model |
SAIT-1 |
SDLT320 |
LTO Generation 2 (Ultrium) |
| Capacity |
500GB |
160GB |
200GB |
| Compressed |
1,300GB (1.3TB) |
320GB |
400GB |
| Transfer Rate Native |
30MB/sec |
16MB/sec |
30-35MB/sec |
| MTBF at 100% duty cycle |
>300,000 hrs |
250,000 hrs |
250,000 hrs |
| Head Life |
>50,000 hrs |
30,000 hrs |
60,000 hrs |
| File Access Time |
70 Sec |
70 Sec |
52 Sec |
| Media Load Time |
23 Sec |
40 Sec |
15 Sec |
| Interface |
Ultra 160 Wide and
Fibre Channel |
Ultra 2 SCSI (HVD and LVD) |
Ultra 2 SCSI (LVD and HVD) |
| Power Consumption |
25 Watts* |
26 Watts* |
41 Watts* |
| MIC |
YES |
No |
YES |
| *Average
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