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Extends Head Life:
Sony's AIT tape tension control is based on years of experience and maintains tape tension at less than one-half of other competing technologies. This continued feature senses and controls tension fluctuations to reduce tape and head wear. In addition, AIT uses ball-bearing roller guides for gentle tape handling and enhanced mechanism and media reliability.
High Speed Data Transfer:
AIT incorporates fast/wide SCSI technology to maximize data transfer to and from the host system at a burst rate of 160 MB/sec.
Efficient Data Management:
In order to access mission-critical data as fast as possible, the MIC system provides a sophisticated data access capability utilizing up to 256 on-tape partitions. This feature facilitates application management of the stored blocks of data on the cartridge by providing the user data space in the memory chip. Also, it provides the benefit of loading/unloading the tape at any partition, thereby providing the user the locality to data needed for fast access.
Extremely Efficient High-Bandwidth Data Compression:
Sony's AIT design incorporates IBM's Advanced Lossless Data Compression (ALDC) technology to provide state-of-the-art performance and capacity features. IBM's research has shown that ALDC provides substantially greater compression efficiency compared to older technology IDRC or DLZ algorithms.
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