Advanced Intelligent Tape (AIT) is a high-speed, high-capacity magnetic tape data storage format developed and controlled by Sony. It competes mainly against the DLT, LTO, DAT/DDS, and VXA formats. AIT uses a cassette similar to Video8. Super AIT (SAIT) is a higher capacity variant using wider tape in a larger, single-spool cartridge. Both AIT and SAIT use the helical scan method of reading and writing the tape.
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Advanced Intelligent Tape (AIT) ist ein Magnetband-System zur Datenspeicherung. Es wurde 1996 vorgestellt und ist eine Weiterentwicklung des Digital Audio Tape (DAT) von Sony, das metallbeschichtete Bänder (Advanced Metal Evaporated, AME) verwendet und eine im Vergleich zu DAT etwa vierfach höhere Speicherkapazität ermöglicht.
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<storage> (AIT) A form of magnetic tape and drive using AME developed by Sony for storing large amounts of data. An AIT can store over 50 gigabytes and transfer data at six megabytes/second (in February 1999). AIT features high speed file access, long head and media life, the ALDC compressionalgorithm, and a MIC chip. Home. Seagate. (1999-04-16)