Comparison Of Sony SDX5-400C, AIT-5 Tape Format With LTO-3 And DLT Backup Tape Solutions

Backup storage and data security have become the lifeblood of your organization. Your business faces tough challenges as you have to keep pace with the exploding business-critical information, while ensuring in-time data availability to the management, stakeholders and customers. The traditional backup tape solutions could not handle these stiff challenges at an economical cost. That is why Sony invented the breakthrough AIT (advanced intelligent tape) technology, which provides industry-leading storage density. Its superior compactness enables consolidation of tape resources, whereas its fast read/write speed helps to efficiently manage the data in storage-intensive organizations.

Latest version of Sony AIT format is AIT 5 tape. Branch offices, high end workstations, enterprise archiving applications, SMBs, financial industry and workgroups are particularly suited to AIT5 tape format's powerful combination of performance and higher operating efficiency. In addition, AIT-5 solution can be easily configured into a wider array of automated backup environments. AIT5 cartridge, part number SDX5-400C, can preserve higher data amount of 400 GB.

The major rivals of AIT-5 tape format are DLT and LTO3 tape, which belong to the category of half-inch tape cartridges. In comparison to both these tape cartridges, the Sony AIT-5 tape is almost 67% smaller and you can easily carry it in your shirt pocket. In addition, the tape area and tape length of Sony AIT-5 cartridge are 27% and 40% shorter. You might be thinking that how come this small AIT-5 tape can preserve greater amount of data? Well this has been made possible by increasing the recording density and smoothness of base film.

Another powerful feature of Sony AIT-5 technology is its improved data compression ratio that has been enhanced to 2.6:1. The LTO ultrium3 and DLT tape formats offer 2:1 data compression. Therefore, the AIT-5 customers will get more than twice the amount of recording capacity with compressed data. SDX5-400C, AIT-5 tape cartridge's compressed capacity is 1.04 TB. MTBF rating of Sony AIT5 drives is the highest in mid-range tape market that reaches up to a staggering 400,000 hours, which means that your valuable data assets are more secure. Sony AIT 5 drives, available in external and internal 5.25-inch models, features a large 96MB data buffer that ensures consistent performance and fast searching speed even under high duty cycles.

Sony AIT5 media cartridge is also available with WORM functionality, which ensures superior integrity of back data by prohibiting common operating errors and malicious over-writings. Part number of this extremely reliable AIT5 WORM media cartridge is SDX5-400W. The Sony AIT5 solution can be confidently installed into the existing AIT-4 and AIT-3 environments, because AIT-5 drive can write as well as restore the recorded data from both AIT 4 and AIT 3 media tapes.

Sony AIT 5 drive features special "dust protective bezels" that seal the tape drive area when the cartridge is removed from the drive. This unique technology makes AIT5 tape drives a smart choice for dusty data centers.

Sony AIT5 better serves your demanding storage needs, while providing compatibility with the industry leading servers from Fujitsu-Siemens, Hewlett-Packard, Dell and IBM.

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