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San Jose, CA 95134
Phone: 866-335-7669
www.storagebysony.com
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AIT-2 External Drive

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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Press Releases:
11/07/06 Sony Now Shipping AIT-5 Products
09/22/06 Candelis Brings Advanced Information Lifecycle Management to its ImageGrid DICOM Server Appliance with Sony AIT Tape (32K PDF)
06/21/06 Sony Delivers Fifth Generation AIT Format
01/11/06 Sony Adds SATA Interface to Its AIT Turbo Line
09/20/05 Sony and A4S Security Join Forces to Provide Robust Digital Video Surveillance Solution
03/14/05 Sony Joins Forces with Intradyn to Market E-mail Compliance and Archival Solutions for Small- and Mid-sized Businesses
02/07/05 Sony to Bundle New Veritas Backup Exec Quickstart Software with Its AIT Tape Drives
11/09/04 Sony Turbocharges AIT with New Low-Cost Line
11/09/04 Sony AIT-4 Drives and Media Now Shipping in Volume
08/31/04 Sony Sources AIT Drives for HP Proliant Servers
07/26/04 Sony Extends AIT Format to a Fourth Generation (167K PDF)
05/08/04 Sony Adds WORM Support to SAIT Drives
11/17/03 Sony Enhances AIT-1 and AIT-2 Tape Drives
05/06/03 Sony Advances Small Business Storage Initiative with AIT Desktop Autoloaders
04/14/03 Sony Extends 500GB SAIT Technology to New Branded Drives
03/25/03 SearchStorage.com: Sony Adds to Super AIT PetaSite Libraries
02/20/03 Sony Delivers 1.3TB SAIT Drives to OEM Customers (81K DOC)
12/16/02 Sony Ships Qualification S-AIT Drives and Media to OEMs - Delivers First Tape Format to Store Over One Terabyte Per Cartridge
06/26/02 Sony's AIT Drives Now Offered with Hitachi Servers
05/14/02 Sony AIT Drives and Media to Include Write-Once Functionality for Secure Electronic Data Storage
05/01/02 Sony Shatters Areal Density Record for Tape Storage
11/02/01 Sony and Matsushita Collaborate to Bring New High-Density, S-AIT Tape to Market
11/02/01 Sony Debuts S-AIT Technology Platform
11/02/01 Sony Delivers Third-Generation of Advanced Intelligent Tape (AIT-3) Drives
09/17/01 Sony Unveils its First 2U-Slim Rack-Mountable AIT Library
04/18/01 Sony Unveils Extended AIT Technology Roadmap
04/18/01 Sony Offers Easy Migration to AIT Solutions as it Marks the End of its DDS Format Roadmap
07/24/00 Sony to Increase Production Capabilities of AIT-2 Media
09/15/99 Sony Leverages Leadership in AIT Technology
05/11/99 Sony Squeezes 1 Billion Bits of Data on a Square Inch of Tape
04/19/99 Sony Delivers Second Generation Advanced Intelligent Tape
04/19/99 Sony Launches AIT Forum to Stimulate Storage Industry Cooperation, Innovation

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