AIT Tape Drives

Step up to Sony AIT Tape Drives. A natural growth path for DDS users.
Step-up and migrate to Sony Advanced Intelligent Tape™ (AIT) based data protection solutions. The AIT family now features AIT-3 drives with up to five times the capacity of Sony's DDS-4 tape solutions.
Planning to replace DDS? Sony's AIT is a natural choice.

SONY INTRODUCES THE AIT-4
[external and internal drives available]

Super drive class. The highest performance, highest density AIT Drive. Data Center ready, extremly high performance and capacity in a flexible, compact form factor.

High capacity, high performance, Sony AIT-4 tape drives deliver up to 200GB native (520GB compressed) in a compact, 8mm data cartridge.

AIT-1



AIT-1 USB/i.Link
Combo Drive
AITe90-UL
 

 

AIT-1 External Drive
Trial Software Bundle
SDX-D400C/TB


AIT-1 External Drive
 Integrator Model
AITe90/S (SDX-D400C/BM)

  AIT-2

AIT-2 ATAPI Interface
Internal Drive
AITi130-A/S

AIT-2 Internal Drive
Trial Software Bundle
SDX-500C/TB  



AIT-2 External Drive
Trial Software Bundle
SDX-D500C/TB

 
AIT-2 Internal Drive
Integrator Model
AITi130/S (SDX-500C/BM)


AIT-2 External Drive
Integrator Model
AITe130/S (SDX-D500C/BM)

AIT-1 ATAPI Interface
Internal Drive
AITi90-A/S




AIT-1 Internal Drive
Trial Software Bundle
SDX-400C/TB

AIT-1 Internal Drive
Integrator Model
AITi90/S (SDX-400C/BM)

AIT-3 


AIT-3 Internal Drive
Integrator Model
AITi260/S (SDX-700C/BM)

AIT-3 External Drive
Integrator Model
AITe260/S (SDX-D700C/BM)

Product Line Overview

• Proven helical scan data recording technology and compact size. Same as DDS tape.
• With AIT-3, up to 5X DDS-4 capacity for large desktop or server back-up and data protection
• Easy data migration from DDS or other formats with included NovaStor® tape copy software
• Multi-generation roadmap with backwards compatibility and investment protection within AIT family

Considering a replacement for DDS?
Estimate Total Cost of Ownership for Sony's Advanced Intelligent Taper Technology Solutions

Compare cost with direct attached DDS Drives:
The amount of data you need to store is growing rapidly. The amount of data a server can hold is doubling as well. What about your tape solution? Use our calculator to estimate the TCO of Sony AIT-based automated library solutions

Products in "archive" status:
SDX-S500C/BM
SDX-300C/BM
SDX-S300C/BM
SDX-300C/TB
SDX-S300C/TB
SDX-300C/ES
SDX-300C/BB
SDX-S300C/BB
SDX-S300C/ES
SDX-500C/BB
SDX-S500C/BB
SDX-300C/LB
SDX-S300C/LB

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