Sony Electronics, the parent company of Sony Medical Systems in Park Ridge, NJ, has added to its line of tape storage drives with a 500-GB drive based on its Super Advanced Intelligent Tape SAIT-1 format, housed in an industry-standard 5.25-inch shell.
In addition to the 500-GB capacity (1.3 TB compressed), the SAIT-1 format offers a 30 MB per second (78 MB per second compressed) data transfer rate. This capacity is obtained as a result of much higher recording densities achievable with helical-scan technology and by using the SAIT cartridge, which, at one-half inch wide and 600 meters long, contains five times the recordable area of 8-mm AIT media, according to the company.
Scheduled to ship in July, the external stand-alone SAIT-1 drives are expected to be offered at $14,000 for the SCSI model and $16,000 for the Fibre Channel configuration.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writersApril 15, 2003
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