
Sony's Advanced Intelligent Tape (AIT) technology provides innovative tape solutions developed and brought to market by Sony. Both the AIT and SAIT product lines are offered by Sony. AIT offers a perfect fit for small business and mid-range to enterprise server applications. SAIT is designed for enterprise-level data storage applications.
Sony offers a complete line of AIT and SAIT drives to OEMs and branded, bundled solutions to the channel.
| Model |
Capacity |
Transfer Rate |
Interfaces |
| AIT-E Turbo |
20 GB native (52 GB compressed) |
6 MB/s native |
ATAPI, USB, and Ultra Wide SCSI |
| AIT-1 Turbo |
40 GB native (104 GB compressed) |
6 MB/s native |
ATAPI, USB, SATA, and Ultra Wide SCSI |
| AIT-2 Turbo |
80 GB native (208 GB compressed) |
12 MB/s native |
ATAPI, USB, SATA, and Ultra Wide SCSI |
| AIT-3 |
100 GB native (260 GB compressed) |
12 MB/s native |
Ultra Wide SCSI |
| AIT-3Ex |
150 GB native (390 GB compressed) |
18 MB/s native |
Ultra Wide SCSI |
| AIT-4 |
200 GB native (520 GB compressed) |
24 MB/s native |
Ultra Wide SCSI |
| AIT-5 |
400 GB native (1.04 TB compressed) |
24 MB/s native |
Ultra
Wide SCSI |
| SAIT-1 |
500 GB native (1.3 TB compressed) |
30 MB/s native |
Ultra Wide SCSI and Fibre Channel |
If you need higher capacities than a single drive will offer, Sony offers a full line of AIT and SAIT automation solutions, including:
- LIB-D81 series single-drive, 8-cartridge desktop AIT autoloaders
(up to 8.32 TB compressed)
- LIB-81 series single-drive, 8-cartridge 1U rack mount AIT library
(up to 8.32 TB compressed)
- LIB-162 series dual drive, 16-cartridge 2U rack mount AIT library
(up to 16.64 TB compressed)
- CSM-20 series single-drive, 20-cartridge rack mount SAIT library
(up to 26 TB compressed)
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