Sony AIT-3 tape drives deliver up to 260GB capacity (with 2.6:1 compression) in a compact 3.5" form factor. Sony AIT-3 tape drives offer high data transfer rates of 12.0MB/s native and 24MB/s with 2.0:1 compression for today's most demainding data storage environments. AIT-3 tape drives are fully read and write backward compatible with both AIT-2 media, 36GB and 50GB data cartridges, and AIT-1 media, 25GB and 35GB data cartridges. Backward compatibility helps protect your investment in the valuable data you already have stored on previous generation AIT tape cartridges.