Sony SDZ-100 User Manual

Sony Super Advanced Intelligent Tape™ Drives

Letter of Volatility

The chart below shows the corresponding memory types for the Sony S-AIT tape drives
listed. Please note, there are no remnants of customer data retained in the drive when both
(i) S-AIT tape media is removed and (ii) the power is turned off.

MODEL MEMORY

SIZE

SDZ-100

16 KB EEPROM Non-Volatile No
512 KB SRAM Volatile No
32 MB x2 SDRAM Volatile Yes
16 MB x2 SDRAM Volatile Yes

SDZ-130
16 KB EEPROM Non-Volatile No
512 KB SRAM Volatile No
32 MB x2 SDRAM Volatile Yes
16 MB SDRAM Volatile Yes
1 MB SRAM Volatile Yes
8 KB EEPROM Non-Volatile No

Note:

Flash is used for firmware code upload and contains no user data. EEPROM is used to store
operational parameters and contains no user data.

2 MB FLASH Non-Volatile No

2 MB FLASH Non-Volatile No

MEMORY

TYPE

VOLATILITY USER

DATA*

* “User Data” utilized by “Memory Type”