IBM, Seagate and HP combined their efforts and engineered a new innovative LTO technology that offers a viable and ideal storage medium in a growing complex of backup data storage options. IBM LTO-3 tape has established new standards for performance, capacity and data throughput. Exceptional compatibility of high capacity IBM LTO3 tape enables the users to interchange their sensitive data across different platforms. Increasing needs of the modern backup applications are efficiently accommodated by the new advanced IBM LTO-3 media format. 24R1922 is the part number of the highly economical IBM ultrium 3 cartridge whose native capacity is 400 GB. The compression ratio offered by the IBM LTO-3 is 2:1. This means that the data recording capability of IBM LTO-3 tape will be twice as that of its native capacity.

Ultrium is a powerful and high capacity specification of linear tape open whose per cartridge native capacity offerings range from 100GB (LTO-1 media tape) to 800GB (LTO-4 tape). High performance LTO-3 tape products developed by IBM are carefully engineered to meet the organizations’ needs at an affordable cost. The design of IBM LTO-3 tape comprises of a single hub that allows optimized packaging of media within the ultrium cartridge.

IBM has developed an exceptional and reliable compression algorithm for the LTO-3 tape format which doubles its speed as well as its data capacity. The data tracks of the IBM 24R1922 tape are further divided into 4 areas. Each area is called “data band”. Servo information bounds the top & bottom of each data band. Data is written on each data bands of IBM LTO-3 tape media one at a time. Cartridge memory is unique feature included in the IBM LTO cartridges. Upon loading the tape into the drive, it reads the contents held in the 4KB cartridge memory to accelerate its performance and upgrade the data throughput. The cartridge memory is non-volatile and is embedded in the robust cartridge shell of IBM LTO-3. Users of IBM LTO tape format are offered more luxury as they do not have to insert the cartridge into the drive for retrieving the information about initialization, manufacturer’s data, and calibration information.

Dedicated dual servo mechanism of IBM ultrium-3 increases the data integrity. IBM LTO-3 ultrium technology features error correction system which comprises of 2 levels. This error correction system is very effective and recovers the information from the longitudinal scratches. When the LTO data tapes are being manufactured, the servo bands are recorded onto the media tape. If any of the elements of servo becomes corrupt or defective, the head of the tape drive continues to track because of the 2nd redundant servo mechanism. The servo frame in IBM LTO-3 ultrium format encodes the words in longitudinal position which enables the data administrators to retrieve information from the absolute areas along the entire tape’s length.

Sony AIT-3 tape technology saves energy thus lowering the operational costs. AIT has proved to be the greenest backup tape technology as the average energy consumption of AIT tape is only 13 watt. Sony AIT-3 tape format’s low energy consumption, and long durable life of tape media and drive ensures low ownership cost. Sony SDX3-100W tape cartridge has all the features that make it ideal and most efficient tape media to meet the requirements of SME servers. Backup solutions of AIT format are more reliable and economical. Sony AIT3 storage technology offers more flexibility and convenience to the data managers thus delivering superior performance at lowest costs. Sony SDX3-100W tape has the ideal capacity of 100GB (native) making it the smartest media technology for SME servers.

AIT tape technology offers wide range of recording capacities which range from 40GB to 400GB. Therefore you do not have to compromise or worry as the AIT has different versions that allow the users to select the AIT tape generations that can efficiently meet their requirements of capacity and allocated budget. The AIT tape drives are 3.5 inches in size and are the smallest tape drives in the mid-range tape market. But the recording capacity of AIT tape media is more than other formats. AIT-3 tape format can be easily integrated into any server as the AIT tape drives have USB2.0/IEEE1394, ATAPI, SCSI and SATA interfaces.

More data can fit in the AIT-3 SDX3-100W cartridge thus requiring little shelf space. In this way you can store more data tapes in lesser space thus reducing the cost and time to handle and manage them. Now the organizations are confidently recording their valuable and critical documents and information using the Sony SDX3-100W tape cartridge. Data can not be altered when it has been stored on Sony SDX3-100W tape as the WORM feature prevents changes and deletion of recorded information. Data searching and access time has been reduced significantly in the Sony AIT3 technology by incorporating the memory in cassette technology in the cartridge. The index is recorded onto the MIC chip which helps the tape drive to move straight to the required information required by the user thus reducing the time for data searching. The entire tape reel of AIT-3 is read in a single pass which is made possible by the innovative helical scan technology ensuring precise, error free and fast recording of information.