What is SAIT technology?
SAIT technology is the latest concept in high-capacity and high-performance recording targeted at enterprise storage markets. SAIT technology utilizes a half-inch, single-reel cartridge and provides over twice the uncompressed capacity of the nearest linear half-inch tape drive. When will SAIT-1 solutions be available to the market? Sony expects SAIT-1 solutions to be available through its OEM partners starting in the Spring of 2003. Sony-branded SAIT-1 products are expected to start shipping by the middle of 2003. What are the capacity and transfer rate specifications for SAIT-1? The first generation of SAIT tape drives (SAIT-1) provides up to 1.3 terabytes (TB) of compressed capacity (500 gigabytes (GB) uncompressed) and a transfer rate of up to 78 megabytes (MB) per second compressed (30 MB/sec uncompressed). Do SAIT-1 drives require new media technology? No. SAIT-1 drives utilize the demonstrated capabilities of existing Advanced Metal Evaporated (AME) tape technology contained wit
