Sony Tape Backup – Get Back into the Game!

The Sony Company has a resolution. There’s a Sony program in place that will allow you to trade in your older Sony backup equipment toward the cost of a new tape backup utility system. For those who like the tape backup system unit for data storage, this is great news. And for those loyal Sony customers, it’s even better.



If you’re new to Sony tape backup, or to any tape backup, you’ll find that there are some definite advantages to this method of saving your hard disk data. One of the biggest, according to those who manufacture and use tape storage as a data media, is the ability to manage large quantities of data storage. Arguably the biggest negative is the requirement to store the tapes that the backup and recovery system uses. There are some options on this point, including an offsite storage company.

There are some decisions you need to make when you’re getting ready to choose from the Sony tape drive systems. One is whether you want to have a system tape drive with an internal edi or scsi enclosure or if you prefer an external enclosure. The difference is fairly straightforward. An internal enclosure system has to be installed inside the PC unit itself. A Sony data tape backup with an external enclosure is connected to the desktop or laptop via a wire or USB. Whether you choose internal or external may have less to do with your preference and more with the management requirements of the system you select.

Sony products use the AIT tape for backup. Other systems include DAT, DLT, LTO, 4mm and 8mm cartridges. AIT stands for Advanced Intelligence Tape and it works very much like the 8mm movies. Tape is wound onto a reel, with information being transferred as the tape winds. AIT is among the best and more common systems.

When comparing your tape backup systems, remember to keep the Native Data Transfer Rate in mind. Very simply, this property is the speed at which the backup will occur and it’s measured in megabytes per second.

There are several Sony tape systems to choose from and it becomes an issue of your needs and your budget. If you’re looking for a storage capacity solution to a large network server, you may very well be considering a Sony data tape drive machine for automatic backup as an alternative or an autoloader tape library that can costs several thousand dollars.

Other information to keep in mind when comparing systems properties includes the expected life of the head and backwards readability which will help keeps data already recorded more secure.