SONY SDX-D500C AIT-2 EXTERNAL TAPE DRIVE

Sony SDX-D500C incorporates the AIT-2 - a second generation of Sony's innovative AIT product family, illustrating Sony's commitment to advancing this tape technology into the next millenium. As data storage requirements increase, you can be confident AIT will be there to fulfill your needs. AIT-2 is also fully read and write backward compatible with AIT-1, insuring your data will be accessible for years to come. With a high native capacity per tape and a tremendous native transfer rate, AIT-2 is twice the speed and transfer rate of the original AIT-1 tape drive. All in a compact 3.5" half-height form factor, guaranteeing AIT-2 will fit the demanding capacity and speed your data needs. Trellis Coded Partial Response (TCPR) - the data encoding used by AIT-2 - decreases head noise, thus increasing data reliability. TCPR combined with Sony's patented Hyper Metal laminate heads, which provide an additional increase to signal-to-noise ratio, make AIT-2 extremely durable and ideal for high duty-cycle use, including strenuous tape array and library robotics applications.