About the Business
SQS was formed in 1998 and has become one of the UK’s leading data storage specialists having expanded our data storage portfolio from its grass roots in tape drive repair and sales speciality to include a full range of disk based storage products and refurbished IT hardware.
Here at SQS we understand the often urgent demands placed on you and your data storage & recovery systems. With the amount of data most small to corporate businesses utilise in the modern world; backup down-time is becoming increasingly critical and potentially catastrophic to any company or business.
Business Services
AIT Repair Service
Our engineers are fully trained on all generations of AIT drive from the earliest AIT1 drives to the last AIT5 drives. Our AIT repair service process includes comprehensive full capacity testing and a full 1 year warranty, giving you the confidence that your AIT drive will be returned ready for that all important offsite tape back up.
SONY launched the AIT drive (Advanced Intelligent Tape) format in 1996 as a higher capacity alternative to the popular DDS DAT drive. Much like the DAT and Exabyte drive offerings of the time, AIT utilises helical scan technology with multiple heads to read and write data onto an 8mm tape.
As with all electro-mechanical devices, they can and do fail when you least expect it. Faults can range from stripped gears in the load mechanism to excessive wear on the read/write heads.
Tape Drive Repair
We offer a fast turnaround on all tape drive repairs and hold a large inventory of stock tape drives for same day dispatch.
We can even offer you an advance exchange service to help you get backing up again as soon as possible.
Our full 1-year warranty gives you peace of mind that you tape drive will keep on working long after installation and continue to give reliable service.
We keep extensive stocks of new and refurbished tape drives and libraries on the shelf for same day dispatch.
Should we not have a particular part in stock, we have a large broker network enabling us to locate the drive at very competitive pricing usually for next day dispatch.
Location & Hours
69 Milford Road
Reading, RG1 8LG