Specifications

GLYPH TECHNOLOGIES
AIT DRIVES
Why Backup?
Backing up and archiving your data is easy and extremely important.When you consider
how much time you put into your work,and how large your files can be,regular
preventative system maintenance is much less painful than re-creating a session or project.
In digital audio and video production,you rely on your system to the point that data loss
can be devastating. No matter how well you treat your system,you cannot guarantee your
data will be safe if it exists in only one place.
A backup is a copy of your data in a separate place from the original, such as a hard drive,
tape, DVD or CD. Many people backup their work to tape at the end of the session or on
session breaks.Programs, such as Retrospect or Mezzo, allow you to keep track of what has
been backed up, and what hasn’t.At a glance you can see when the last backup occurred,
and what files were copied.As you continue to record, edit or add new files to your
working drive,continue to back up that data by running the backup program again.
You may also consider backing up your data on hot swappable hard drives. The working
drive and backup drive can be the same capacity, making it easy to keep your files organ-
ized on both drives.Some people use the Trip2 as both working drives and backup drives.
Record your 64 tracks of 96K 24bit audio to three drives at a time, then backup to the
other three at the end of the session.
Ta pe is often used for longer term backup because it is more likely to survive an accidental
drop than a hard drive. Recovering data from a hard drive is not easy, and is expensive.
Optical media may be the most robust for the long term archiving. Optical media,like CD
or DVD, provides you more cost-effective options for restoring your data.
Like tape,hard disk drives are magnetic devices.Just as tape can exhibit dropouts or
degaussing, a hard drive can crash or have bad sectors and irreplaceable data can be lost
forever,unless it has been backed up. The best practice is to regularly back up your projects
to tape, and over long periods of time archive your data with optical media such as DVD.
Optical media offers a longer shelf life than tape and is usually easier to store on your shelves.
Glyph provides fast, large capacity backup and archiving systems with the option of a
FireWire or SCSI interface.SCSI AIT3 offers capacities up to 100GB native, and the
FireWire AIT1 and AIT2 tape back up is reliable and extremely easy to use.
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PHOTO - VIDEO - PRO AUDIO
High-performance Tape Back-up
As robust as today’s hard drives may be they are still
mechanical devices that will stop working one day. In
addition, with the advent of 96kHz and higher sampling
rates, audio files are larger then ever, which means we
need more and more storage space. With this in mind,
high capacity, reliable backup solutions are even more
critical than ever. Tape is a natural backup method
because of its long shelf life and durability. It also provides greater
transfer speeds than previous methods while constantly offering higher storage capacities. Glyph offers AIT drives in
FireWire and SCSI, tabletop and rack-mountable. The AIT line is available in capacities of 35GB, 50GB and 100GB per
tape, utilizing AIT-1,AIT-2 and AIT-3 respectively. The AIT format was developed to handle large capacity requirements
for data-intensive applications, and works exceptionally well for digital audio and video. It employs a helical scan recording
style in which data tracks are written at an angle relative to the edge of the tape. This provides higher density recording,
giving you lower media costs and increased efficiency by storing more data on a smaller amount of tape.
AIT SPECIFICATIONS
AIT-1
◆ 35GB per tape
◆ Available in SCSI and FireWire
◆ 240MB/min sustained transfer rate
◆ SCSI version compatible with Retrospect
and Mezzo
◆ FireWire version compatible with
Retrospect
AIT-2
◆ 50GB per tape
◆ Available in SCSI and FireWire
◆ 360MB/min sustained transfer rate
◆ SCSI version compatible with Retrospect
and Mezzo
◆ FireWire version compatible with
Retrospect
AIT-3
◆ 100GB per tape
◆ Available in SCSI
◆ 720MB/min sustained transfer rate
◆ Compatible with Retrospect and Mezzo