Articles By Jessica McIntosh

Imation has made enhancements to the MP media and then employed it in its LTO ultrium products. Imation is the leader of backup storage medium. The Imation WORM LTO-3 provides a non-rewritable backup tape solution in order to meet the requirements of data archival and data retention.

The form factor of HP AIT-3 tape Q1999A is 3.5". The quantity of per inch recording tracks in HP AIT 3 tape format were increased in comparison to the previous version of AIT 2 and AIT 1 format. HP AIT 2 tape format offers efficient results in tape automation.

Entirely new, different and innovative approach has been used in the VXA backup tape format, which has proved to be the most reliable and efficient recording technique. VXA tape format has 4-level correction system for checking and removing errors.

The reliability and performance of AIT tape technology are unmatchable. Higher performance and compression specifications are achieved in the AIT media format by the addition of ALDC (Adaptive Lossless Data Compression) mechanism. The compression ratio in AIT tape is 2.6:1 which was made possible by the ALDC technology.

HP LTO-3 tape technology is very economical, that is why it is preferred by the businesses. The design base of HP LTO 3 tape is open architecture. LTO ultrium is a powerful, robust and adaptable tape storage medium that is the most efficient media format to meet the increasing needs of mid-range tape storage category.

High durability is achieved in the AIT tape format by the use of Sony’s AME technology. The latest innovative high density, durable and fast speed tape storage format developed by Sony is the AIT (Advanced Intelligent Tape). This MIC chip helps in immediate and direct connection is provided to the on-board processors of AIT tape drive.

The Exabyte VXA X (11100221) can hold 80 GB native data and compressed data up to 160GB. Exabyte VXA X tape format reads and writes information in the form of “packets”. Large data blocks are read and written along the helical or linear tracks in the other tracking backup tape systems.

Three techniques are combined in the Tera-Angstrom mechanism developed by Imation. The uniformity and smooth surface of Imation LTO-4 tape media improves the track and bit density that ensures grater capacities. Smoothness of tape surface is achieved at Angstrom level by utilizing the coating and formulation process by Imation.

The WORM technology is featured in LTO 3 as well as the LTO-4 tape technology. WORM is a cost efficient technology that records information onto the media in non-rewriteable format. LTO tape format has set new standards because of its optimized head tape interface.

New standards for scalability, performance, cost efficiency and reliability has been set by VXA format. The quantity of moving parts has been reduced in VXA format. The streamlined architecture of VXA tape technology boosts the transfer speed and enhances capacity for less cost.

AIT-turbo has added new options of greater capacity and elevated performance in the AIT family. AME technology has been employed by Sony since the introduction of AIT. The AIT tape media comprises of cobalt that is 100 % pure.

The Imation black watch LTO-3 tape can hold 800 GB compressed information and 400gigabytes native data. Imation has introduced new technology called “Tera Angstrom”. Tera Angstrom technique assures uniform and smooth LTO tape media that allows increased storage capacity and enhanced track and bit density.

Sony offers leading AIT product line and has introduced five generation of AIT tape that meet the market demands. The AIT backup system is ideal for working environments ranging from stand alone drives used in the small businesses to the automated libraries and tape loaders.

Compressed per cartridge capacity of AIT-2 tape is 130GB with native rate speed of 6 MB/s. Sony SDX2-50C AIT-2 cartridge has memory chip of 64 Kilobytes. Search map, user definable data and system log information is recorded on AIT tape’s MIC chip.

Hewlett-Packard has devised a solution for the organizations that can help to minimize the encryption costs. HP has incorporated cost efficient encryption technology in its LTO-4 C7973W tape format. HP LTO 4 tape belongs to the fourth generation of ultrium technology.

AIT-5 tape technology’s helical-scan technique results in lower tape tension and power consumption with increased packing density. Powerful and Innovative features of AIT tape technology ideally position it for SMB server environment’s archiving & data backup applications.

Fuji LTO-3 (26230010) is ideal and perfect for the demanding applications. The ATOMM technology contributes to the superior stability and robustness of the LTO ultrium cartridges. LTO-3 is the first generation in which the WORM technology was introduced to provide extra data security features.

Features of Helical scan, Advanced Metal Evaporated technique along with low tape tension and gentle motion of tape reel enable the AIT 5 tape format to achieve the durability, and performance level demanded by the users. WORM technology in AIT tape format lowers the ownership cost.

Fuji LTO-4 is one of the first tape products in the midrange that utilizes the Fuji’s film coating technology called “NANOCUBIC”. WORM technique was first incorporated in the ultrium LTO-3 tape format that proved to be cost effective in terms of recording information in a non-rewriteable format. Fuji LTO 4th generation tape offers unmatchable native 800GB recording ability at fast speed of 120 megabytes/sec.

Helical scan can record the entire tape media content in a single pass. The helical scan technology helps the AIT tape format to record four times more tracks per inch. Sony Corporation has extended the capability of AIT tape format by introducing the AIT-5 technology that offers high density and space efficient data storage solution.

Sony AIT storage solutions provide easier maintenance, better reliability, exceptional performance, broader capacities range and strategic path for up gradation. AIT3 WORM tape contains RMIC memory, whose purpose is to store the index of the all the data that has been written onto the tape.

Backup storage solution offered by Sony AIT5 tape is more cost efficient particularly for branch-office applications and SMB. Sony AIT 5 SDX5-400W is more advantageous because of its smaller media size and its storage solution is superior and unmatchable.

Dell LTO-4 backup media technology gives increased hardware protection with physical capacity of 800GB per cartridge (native) and 120Mb/s of native speed. All these powerful features help to alleviate overhead of administration and the backup windows are also shortened up in comparison to the LTO3 tape devices.

The width of the particles of DLT is 60 percent more than that of the 8-mm data tape. DLT tape drives write the data onto the tape reel in pattern of “serpentine”. The tracks on the DLT tape reel are organized into pairs.

The performance, quality and durability of HP hard drives are ensured as the drives are extensively tested through industry leading testing systems. Hewlett-Packard Universal hard drives offer their users highest level of investment protection, performance, durability and data integrity.

Sony decreased the wavelength of used in digital versatile disks (650nm) to 405nm and also increased the NA to 0.85 from its previous 0.60 which helped to enhance the recording capacity 2.5 times more. That is how the Sony Blu-ray became capable of storing 25GB.

It is better to inspect the tape media before it is loaded into standalone tape drive or autoloader. Tape technology of DLT (digital linear tape) has mechanism of “latch leader” in which the drive is engaged onto the leader of tape cartridge and then the media is pulled into the tape drive.