Advanced Intelligent Tape
Videos
Advanced Intelligent Tape is a discontinued high-speed, high-capacity magnetic-tape data storage format developed and controlled by Sony. It was introduced in 1996 to use Advanced Metal Evaporated tec
AIT tapes
Linear Tape-Open
Videos
Linear Tape-Open, also known as the LTO Ultrium format, is a magnetic tape data storage technology used for backup, data archiving, and data transfer. It was originally developed in the late 1990s as
Advanced Intelligent Tape
…developed and controlled by Sony. It was introduced in 1996 to use Advanced Metal Evaporated (AME) technology. It competed mainly against the DLT, LTO, DAT/DDS, and VXA formats. AIT uses 8 mm tape in a cassette similar to Video8. Super AIT (SAIT) is a higher-capacity variant using wider half-inch…
A 400 GB LTO-3 cartridge by Sony
LTO-2 cartridge with the top shell removed, showing the internal components. Top right corner: tape access gate. Bottom left corner: write-protect-tab. Bottom right corner: cartridge memory chip
LTO-3 cartridge with the top shell removed, showing the internal components. Top right corner: write-protect-tab. Bottom left corner: cartridge memory chip. Bottom: tape access gate.
LTO cartridge memory