AIT Tape With The MIC Functionality
Sony's AIT tape data format 5 is characterized by helical scan recording, increased performance level, AME technology, robust base film, low operational cost, advanced media formulation, fast transfer rate, long archival life, smooth tape reel, fast searching speed, massive recording capacity, dynamic tracking, MR tape head technology, MIC memory chip and write-once read-many functionality. The head platform used in helical scan technology is very stable. This rotating drum in AIT tape drive ensures low error rate and maintains exceptional data integrity in heavy workloads and stress. Efficient recording technique used in AIT media format is more reliable than other recording mechanisms, and allows high density recording at lowest cost per GB. AIT-5 data tapes are small sized that helps the businesses to conserve space thus leading to low backup operations.
The HP AIT (Advanced Intelligent Tape) media format gives efficient results for work group and departmental backups where cost, performance and capacity are critical. HP AIT has Memory-in- Cassette (MIC) technology that gives higher reliability and faster files access.
MIC is a memory element of semiconductor. It is a memory chip that is built into the cartridge to provide immediate and direct connection to on board processors of the tape drive. Therefore, speed to access cartridge data and files enhances and holds the user definable information & system's log providing data related to current state and history of data cartridge. MIC system does not require time delaying threading process & media load or use of on-tape "index file" like the other tape formats do, instead it formats the parameters of file search and information. The data access time is reduced to half irrespective of the recording density and speed of the tape drive.
MIC is a memory element of semiconductor. It is a memory chip that is built into the cartridge to provide immediate and direct connection to on board processors of the tape drive. With the help of MIC chip, the cartridge can directly connect to on board processors of AIT tape drive.
MIC technology is incorporated in AIT 1, AIT-2, AIT 1 Turbo and AIT 2 Turbo tape format. The extension of the MIC technology is the R-MIC (Remote MIC) and it is incorporated in AIT 3, AIT 4, AIT 5 and AIT-3Ex. Valuable data in cartridge can be accessed by tape drive without using physical connection because of the R-MIC technology. So, the connector wear for AIT media & drive both is reduced. The architecture of Remote MIC provides a protected area which is utilized for implementing the WORM feature. The WORM feature is incorporated in AIT-2, AIT-3, AIT-2 Turbo, AIT-3Ex, AIT 4 and AIT5 tape format. MIC technology is used by many storage applications and its benefits can be seen in video server, WORM recording, film editing and hierarchical storage management. AIT media provides low cost and efficient solutions for the customers of AIT drive. It supports all the current Hewlett-Packard AIT and AIT autoloaders, libraries, drives of per-merger Compaq.There are self cleaning heads in the AIT tape drives. The AIT cleaning cartridges from HP provide up to seventy cleans. The HP AIT tape products are HP AIT-1 (Q1997A), HP AIT-2 (Q1998A), HP AIT-3 (Q1999A) and HP cleaning cartridge (Q1996A).
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