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AVAX AMA-20000
Based on the Sony AIT-3 drive
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Model Overview
Model Highlights
Features
Specifications
Model Overview
AIT-3 drive, available as internal or external with Wide Ultra SCSI SE / LVD Interface
Model Highlights:
- 260 GB capacity and 12.0 MB/s sustained data transfer rate (with 2.6:1 compression)
- Backward compatibility with AIT-1 and AIT-2 data cartridges
- Fast media loading (Less than 10 s) and file access (27 s to 37 s)
- High reliability with MTBF of 300,000 POH (100% duty cycle), head life of 50,000 hours, and media uses of 30,000 end-to-end passes
- Efficient data management with Memory In Cassette (MIC)
- Compact 3.5-inch form factor for easy integration into existing systems
- Active Head Cleaner mechanism and AME media reduce the need for periodic cleaning
Features:
High capacity, high performance
Sony AIT-2 tape drives deliver up to 260 GB capacity (with 2.6:1 compression) in a compact, 8mm data cartridge. Helical scan technology increases data recording density, while offering fast data transfer rates of up to 28.0 MB/s (2.6:1 compression)
Fast access to data with MIC
The unique Memory-In-Cassette feature of Sony AIT drives, with 64 kB of built-in programmable memory, speeds access to data, providing fast loading (less than 10 seconds) and quick file access (27 to 37 seconds).
High reliability
Sony AIT tape drives incorporate a redesigned head geometry, reducing head/tape pressure and delivering up to 50,000 hours of head life. The built-in Active Head Cleaner mechanism results in an industry leading MTBF rating of 300,000 POH (100% duty cycle).
Backward Compatibility
Sony AIT-3 tape drives are fully read and write backward compatible with both AIT-2 media, 36 GB and 50 GB data cartridges, and AIT-1 media, 25 GB and 35 GB data cartridges. Backward compatibility helps protect your investment in the valuable data you already have stored on AIT-2 and AIT-1 data cartridges, while delivering the increased capacity and performance of AIT-3 technology.
Reduced periodic maintenance
Sony AIT drives incorporate an Active Head Cleaner mechanism activated automatically by the drive mechanism when tape errors approach a certain threshold.
Specifications:
Capacity:
| Media Maximum: |
260 GB (2.6:1 Compression) |
| Hardware Maximum: |
260 GB (2.6:1 Compression) |
| Native Capacity of Media: |
100 GB |
| Native Capacity of Hardware: |
100 GB |
| Linear Recording Density: |
167,000 bpi |
| Recording Block Length: |
Variable or fixed length blocks |
Transfer Rate:
| Sustained Transfer Rate: |
28.0 MB/s (Compressed)
11.0 MB/s (Native)
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| Burst Transfer Rate: |
XX.0 MB/s (Async., Max.)
XX.0 MB/s (Sync., Max.)
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Speed:
| Access Time (Avg.): |
27 s (with MIC) |
| Search Speed: |
1,440 MB/s (Compressed)
720 MB/s (Native)
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| Rewind Speed: |
160 inches/s (Max.) |
| Drum Rotational Speed: |
6,400 rpm |
| Media Load Time (Avg.): |
10 s (with MIC)
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Reliability:
| MTBF:
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300,000 POH (100% duty cycle) |
| Uncorrectable Error Rate: |
Less than 10-17 bits |
| Read/Write Head Life (Avg.): |
50,000 tape contact hours |
| Media Uses (Avg.): |
30,000 end to end passes |
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