Features - Sony AITE260 - AIT E260/S Tape Drive Operating Instructions Manual

Features

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Part 1. Introduction
The AITe1040/AITe1040V drives have the following features:
• Supports reading and writing to data cartridges conforming to the AIT-5,
AIT-4, AIT-3 Ex, and AIT-3 formats.
• Data compression provides 1,040 gigabytes of storage on SDX5-400C data
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cartridges.
The native capacity is 400 gigabytes of storage on SDX5-400C data
cartridges.
• Ultra 160 SCSI interface is fully supported for host computer access.
• Fragment rewrite function (AIT-5, AIT-4, AIT-3 Ex)
• Frame rewrite function (AIT-3)
The AITe520/AITe520V drives have the following features:
• Supports reading and writing to data cartridges conforming to the AIT-4
and AIT-3 Ex formats.
• Data compression provides 520 gigabytes of storage on SDX4-200C data
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cartridges.
The native capacity is 200 gigabytes of storage on SDX4-200C data
cartridges.
• Ultra 160 SCSI interface is fully supported for host computer access.
• Fragment rewrite function
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This is assuming 2.6 : 1 compression ratio.
The degree of data compression attained while recording data varies according to system
environment and data type.