Sony AITi200STS User Manual

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Why AIT Turbo?

The AIT-2 Turbo drives provide higher performance,
higher capacity and higher reliability than DAT72 drives.

Turbos are the fastest in their class. With a native
transfer rate of 43.2GB/hour, they complete a full 80GB
backup in under two hours - faster than DAT72 or DLT
VS160.

Because they’re part of the proven AIT family, Turbo
has all the great qualities you’d expect: things like
assured compatibility with major vendor servers, and
with previous AIT generations.

With 300,000 hours Mean Time Between Failures
(MTBF) at 100% duty cycle, AIT Turbo drives are more
reliable than LTO, DLT VS and DAT. You won’t find a
more reliable drive in its class.

The drives are available as internal SATA, USB 2.0,
ATAPI or SCSI and external SCSI, USB 2.0 or IEEE1394
versions.

Key features and benefits

• 80GB native capacity per cartridge for AIT-2 Turbo
– More than twice the capacity of DAT72

•

High Backup Data transfer rate with 43.2GB/hour (native)
– AIT-2 Turbo is faster than DAT72, DLTVS160 or

LTO-1 drives

• HP ProLiant, IBM, Dell, Fujitsu Siemens server
compatible
– Trouble free installation into major European Servers

• SATA, USB 2.0 and ATAPI interface versions available
– Extra SCSI interface card is not required for server

• High reliability at 300.000h MTBF
– AIT-2 Turbo is 7.5 times more reliable than DAT72

•

3.5” tape drive form factor with supplied 5.25” adaptor
– Same drive size as DAT drives

• AME Binder free AIT media for cleaner R/W Head
– Less head clogging, less cleaning required, higher

reliability

AITi200STS / AITi200S / AITi200AS /

AITe200SBK / AITe200ULSBK

AIT-2 Turbo drives

AIT Turbo drives, the fastest drives in their class

Available with SATA, SCSI, ATAPI, USB 2.0 or IEEE1394 interface
HP Proliant, Dell, IBM and Fujitsu-Siemens server tested
More than twice the capacity and four times the speed of DAT72

Optional Accessories

TAIT2-80C Sony AIT-2 Turbo 80GB Data Cartridge,

With MIC, rewritable

TAIT2-80N Sony AIT-2 Turbo 80GB Data Cartridge,

Without MIC, rewritable

SDX2-50C Sony AIT-2 50GB Data Cartridge (rewritable)

SDX2-36C Sony AIT-2 36GB Data Cartridge (rewritable)

SDX2-50W Sony AIT-2 50GB Data Cartridge (WORM)

SDX1-CL Sony AIT Cleaning Cartridge

KITRMEU 1U 19" rack mount kit for maximum two internal

tape drives

Supplied Accessories

AITi200S, AITi200AS, AITi200STS (internal):

3.5” AIT tape drive, 5.25” front bezel adaptor attached, Black
mounted front bezel with spare white front bezel kit, Quick start
guide, Mounting screws, Warranty flyer, WEEE recycling flyer,
backup software disc (check web site for latest version information),
USB adapter with internal USB cable and 4 pin motherboard
connector (AITi200STS only).

AITe200SBK (external):
External black AIT tape drive, Warranty flyer, Quick start guide, SCSI
terminator and power cable (UK+EU), WEEE recycling flyer, backup
software disc (check web site for latest version information).

AITe200ULSBK (external):
External black AIT tape drive, Warranty flyer, Quick start guide, 1 x
USB and 2 x FireWire (4 pin-6 pin, 6 pin-6 pin) cables, Power cable
(UK+EU), WEEE recycling flyer, backup software disc (check web
site for latest version information).

Model Name AITi200STS AITi200S AITi200AS AITe200SBK AITe200ULSBK
Tape Drive Type Internal SATA / USB 2.0** Internal SCSI Internal ATAPI External SCSI

External USB2.0 / IEEE1394
Native Capacity 80GB
Compressed Capacity* 208GB*
Native Sustained Transfer Rate 43.2GB/h, (12MB/s)
Interface Serial ATA (Gen 1) / * Ultra 160 ATA/ATAPI Ultra 160 IEEE1394 (i.LINK S400)

USB 2.0* SCSI LVD/SE (Ultra ATA100) SCSI LVD/SE USB2.0

68pin High Density 68pin High Density (USB 1.1 with USB

1.1 performance)

Burst Transfer Rate 150MB/s / 60MB/s** 160MB/s 100MB/s 160MB/s 50MB/s (IEEE1394)

60MB/s (USB2.0)
Hardware Data Compression ALDC (Adaptive Lossless Data Compression)
Error Rate Less than 10

-17

bits
Buffer Size 24MB 32MB
MTBF (100% duty cycle) 300.000h
Head Life 50.000h (typical)
Dimension (W,H,D) mm 3.5”: 101.6*41.2*155 198 * 64.5 *246

5.25”: 146*41.2*155
Power Consumption (write operation) 12W 14W 20W
Operating Environment Temperature 5°C to 40°C 10°C to 35°C
Humidity (operating) 20 to 80% (26°C) 30 to 80% (26°C)
Weight 3.5”: 780g, 5.25”: 1050g 2.4 Kg

**2.6:1 data compressed with ALDC. The data compression rate varies according to the type of data and the rate is generally lower if the data has already been compressed
*1kByte=1000Byte, 1MByte=1000kByte, 1GByte=1000MByte
**USB 2.0 connector is available via SATA / USB adapter

Sony, StorStation and AIT-2 Turbo are trademarks of Sony Corporation. Features and specifications are subject to change without notice. Sony
Corporation is not responsible for any errors that may appear in this document. Sony Europe-MC October 2007.

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