HP C7978A First-Rated Universal Cleaning Cartridge

HP C7978A Hewlett Packard, IBM and Seagate (Quantum) developed LTO (Linear Tape Open) data storage tape format in the mid 90s, LTO is most remarkable and reliable data storage format which is offering very low cost per GB. HP, IBM and Seagate formed an LTO consortium to handle all the LTO Ultrium standard qualities and further research for next generations of LTO data storage cartridges.

All the members of the LTO consortium also manufactured LTO Ultrium tape drive those are equally consistent and offered reliable, durable and excellent long term performances along with Cartridges, Every new generation of LTO Ultrium tape format also create a new generation of LTO Ultrium Tape drive. Of better working operations and long term durability LTO Ultrium Tape drive make use of various cleaning cartridges.es.

HP offers somekeyword, a universal cleaning cartridge which is offering very reliable, excellent and durable cleaning services for all existed Ultrium Tape drives. HP C7978A, which is perfectly compatible with all manufacturers LTO Ultrium Tape Drives, It mostly depends on the Tape Drive that how many times its allow a cleaning tape to be utilized, and Ultrium tape drives actually set the maximum uses Limit, not the HP cleaning cartridge, every cleaning cartridge embedded with an RF (Radio Frequency) LTO-CM or tape memory chip which is able to store most important data of cartridge and its usage record, The tape drive compels communicate with this memory chip and goes into the cleaning form if the cleaning cartridge is well-matched. If the LTO-CM shows the Cleaning Cartridge is recognized as a mismatched type it will not be making use of it and the tape drive reports unacceptable Cleaning Media.

The Ultrium tape drives utilized LTO-CM to remain follow of the number of times the somekeyword, has been utilized, while an Ultrium tape drive observes that a cleaning cartridge has already been utilized the utmost number of times as mostly firm by the tape drive firmware, in this case Ultrium tape drive to no longer exercise to cleaning Ultrium cartridge and the tape drive will information terminate cleaning tape. Since the introduction of HP LTO Cleaning, cartridge, these UCC Ultrium tapes is compatible with all Tape Drives, but some older version of tape drive will need a firmware upgrading for Universal Cleaning Cartridge utilization as well most uses of cleaning tapes are depend on tape drive model.

HP LTO Cleaning cartridge, are able to clean Utlrium tape drive for 50 times but mostly it depends on drives and not allowed cleaning if not the drive is required a cleaning cartridge. If users insert a cleaning cartridge when the tape drive does not need to be cleaned, the Ultrium tape drive will automatically eject the HP LTO Cleaning tape, many modern LTO Ultrium tape drives have an automatic cleaning system which is pre installed in the firmware but the same time these tape drives need cleaning and generally use the HP LTO cleaning tapes, for better and reliable head cleaning for continue excellent operations. HP C7978A Cleaning Cartridge is compatible with all Ultrium tape drives and offers better and reliable cleaning process. All brands of Universal Cleaning Cartridges are available at Itdevicesonline.com