Data Capacity; Data Transfer Rate; Sustained Data Transfer Rate To And From Tape; Burst Transfer Rate To And From The Ide Bus - Sony AIT-SDX560 Product Specifications Manual

Data Capacity

2.3.1.
The SDX-560V includes a data compression capability. When data compression is enabled the drive capacity can
increase from 2 times to 3 times. The efficiency of the data compression depends on the actual data that is being
compressed and cannot be predicted precisely prior to compression.
Format AIT-E Turbo Standard Format
Native
20.0 Gbyte typical
Capacity
Format AIT-1 Standard Format
25.0 Gbyte typical
Native
Capacity
35.0 Gbyte typical
Format AIT-1 Turbo Standard Format
Native
40.0 Gbyte typical
Capacity
Format AIT-2 Standard Format
50.0 Gbyte typical
Native
Capacity
36.0 Gbyte typical
Format AIT-2 Turbo Standard Format
Native
80.0 Gbyte typical
Capacity

Data transfer Rate

2.3.2.
2.3.2.1.

Sustained Data Transfer Rate to and from Tape

The sustained transfer rate to and from the tape is 12 Mbyte per second with AIT-E Turbo, AIT-1 Turbo, AIT-2, AIT-2
Turbo cassette. The sustained transfer rate to and from the tape is 8 Mbyte per second with AIT-1 cassette. For this
sustained rate to be achieved, the drive must be streaming. There may be some dependency on the host and
application softwares for this to be achieved.

Burst Transfer Rate to and from the IDE Bus

2.3.2.2.
The SDX-560V will transmit and receive data bursts to and from the IDE bus at a maximum burst rate of 100 Mbyte
per second, using Ultra DMA (mode 5) transfer.
2.3.3.

Initialize Time

Initialize Time means the period from the time the drive is powered on to the time when the drive is ready and waiting
for a ATA/ATAPI command such as INQUIRY or TEST UNIT READY. Initialize Time is less than 5 seconds.
The drive will respond with BUSY status until the completion of the Initialize Time. The Initialize Time does not
include the time necessary for drive diagnostics to complete and the drive to become ready for tape insertion.
SONY AIT-2 Turbo drive SDX-560V series Ver.1.0
When using 98 meter tape AIT-E Turbo cassette (TAITE-20N)
When using 170 meter tape AIT-1 cassette (SDX1-25C)
When using 230 meter tape AIT-1 cassette (SDX1-35C)
When using 186 meter tape AIT-1 Turbo cassette (TAIT1-40N and
TAIT1-40C)
When using 230 meter tape AIT-2 cassette (SDX2-50C)
When using 170 meter tape AIT-2 cassette (SDX2-36C)
When using 186 meter tape AIT-2 Turbo cassette (TAIT2-80N and
TAIT2-80C)
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