1. Celcius Tape
... . Drives such as this generally are offered only in a SCSI version. A close cousin to DAT is AIT (Advanced Intelligent Tape), developed by Sony. This variant on the DAT standard uses similar internal components but higher-capacity media. AIT comes in two flavors, AIT-1 and the more recent AIT-2, the latter offering increased capacity and twice the speed of the earlier generation. Both versions are ... still shipping. AIT drives use an 8-mm tape technology called AME (Advanced Metal Evaporated): The tape is coated with a very ... smooth diamond-like substance, which gives the tape a high...
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