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GST offers data cartridges and cleaning cartridges for the leading tape technologies.

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AIT
Media: AIT
Advanced Intelligent Tape (AIT) format is a leading tape technology designed and manufactured by Sony Electronics. It forms the basis of Sony's new SDX series of tape drives and media.

AIT tape cartridges feature an MIC–Memory In Cartridge chip (the brains) and Advanced Metal Evaporated (AME) media that has a pure evaporated cobalt layer designed for maximum capacity and longevity (the brawn).

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DAT
Media: DAT
DAT-72 tape technology provides reliable backup and restoration for small- to medium- sized businesses seeking an affordable storage solution. An extension of the popular DDS tape format, the DAT-72 balances price with higher capacity and greater reliability.

Offering eighty-percent improved capacity over precious generations of DDS tape, the DAT-72 stores 36GB (72GB compressed) with speeds of 12.6GB per hour (25.2 per hour compressed). Backward compatible with DDS-3 and DDS-4 media, the DAT-72 provides complete investment protection.

LTO
Media: LTO
LTO cartridges use linear (serpentine) tape format providing fewer moving parts, durability and reduced maintenance costs. The version of LTO technology that GST uses is best suited for high-capacity backup, restore and archiving. Enhancements in the areas of timing-based servos, hardware data compression, optimized track layouts and ECC error correction help improve capacities, performance and reliability.

Mammoth
Media: Mammoth
Mammoth tape technology has evolved through two generations and provides read compatibility to existing Mammoth backups. The technology was originally created by Sony Corporation and later expanded by Exabyte Corporation.

Native cartridge capacities for Mammoth2 are 60GB (120GB compressed) with speeds of 43GB/hr (86GB/hr compressed). A 2-to-1 compression ratio is achieved with IDRC technology.


SAIT
Media: sAIT
sAIT tape technology platform delivers high capacity and high performance using a half-inch, single-reel tape and a 5.25-inch full-height mechanism design, dramatically improving the value proposition between conventional tape roadmaps and future hard disk drive capacity trends. As a new class of tape solution, sAIT technology leapfrogs conventional linear solutions, offering significant advantages in capacity, performance, reliability, and scalability.

SDLT
Media: sDLT
sDLT is based on the technology platform that more companies trust to protect their business critical information asset than any other: DLTtape. Specifically designed for the high duty-cycle requirements of the high-end and automated environments, sDLT drives are rated at 250,000 hour Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) at a 100% tape motion. A low-tension tape design, simple tape path and the proven reliability of linear serpentine tape recording combine to provide users with rock solid reliability and data integrity.

SLR
Media: SLR
Scalable Linear Recording (SLR) tape technology has evolved through three generations: SLR7, SLR60, SLR75, SLR100 and SLR140. SLR technology provides high capacity and performance, reliability, scalability, and backward and forward compatibility for the use of existing media now and in the future. Data is recorded in parallel on two tracks for SLR7 and on four tracks for SLR60, SLR75, SLR100 and SLR140. Data placement ensures that it can be read during a restore operation even if the media is degraded.

VXA
Media: VXA
VXA tape technology has evolved through two generations and provides outstanding capacity and performance with a highly stable technology roadmap. VXA utilize packet technology, providing improved data reliability.

Native cartridge capacities for VXA-2 are 80GB (160GB compressed) with speeds of 21GB/hr (43GB/hr compressed). A 2-to-1 compression ratio is achieved with Adaptive Lossless Data Compression (ALDC) technology.


8mm
Media: 8mm
8mm tape technology has evolved through four generations and provides read compatibility to existing 8mm backups. The technology was originally created by Sony Corporation and later expanded by Exabyte Corporation.

Native cartridge capacities for 8mm are 7GB (14GB compressed) with speeds of 3.5GB/hr (7GB/hr compressed). A 2-to-1 compression ratio is achieved with IDRC technology.

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