subject: Hp Lto C7978a Ucc, Perfect Choice For Ultrium Drives Head Cleaning [print this page] HP Linear Tape Open products pass the intensive test and qualification and proven to be the best and most reliable LTO Ultrium products, every generation of LTO Ultrium tape or Tape Drive has unique features with different qualities, capacities, speeds, performance and data preservations. All HP LTO Ultrium tapes are able to perform for more than 30 years with very intensive and hard load and unload cycles as well as LTO Ultrium tape drives.
These exhaustive and tough continue operations build the debris on the drives head, and also affect the top quality, that interferes with head to tape contact, users mostly lessen failures as well as make longer the life of exclusive magnetic heads. At 200 IPS (Inches per second) the LTO cleaners can procedure a 2000 foot cartridge in just about 5 minutes from placing to discharge. The advantage of C7978A, is the guarantee so as to cartridge are performances at most favorable presentation levels.
HP C7978A, is a universal cleaning tape which is compatible with all LTO Ultrium Tape drives, every HP cleaning tape has built in computer memory chip, which is running the cartridge by more reliability with tape drives, HP C7978A cleaning cartridge, memory chip which is a also a basic part of LTO data storage tape. Memory chip able to store very important information and it has a fixed code that is standardized by the well-matched drive's firmware. Once the cleaning cartridge is used to capacity 15 ~50 uses, the drives will no longer accept the HP C7978A tape, and will throw out the tape, keeping out additional use.
Many latest tape drives has build in cleaning system and when head need the cleaning automatic cleaning system cleans the tape drive head, but the same time HP LTO Cleaning, should be used to better read and write functions. Numbers of LTO Tape Drives use of an HP LTO Cleaning Cartridge, dependent on the Tape Drive model or manufacturing brand. Users should check the requirement of his or her tape drive or should get in touch with Tape drive producer for the numbers of cleanings permitted before the cleaning cartridge is run outs. HP LTO cleaning tape, is a complete Universal Cleaning Cartridge (UCC) which turn out to be commercially obtainable in 2002 year, which is completely compatible with all Utlrium Tape drives. On the other hand the integer of clean employs still differs from tape drive model.
HP LTO cleaning tapes, are compatible with all tape drives but existing older tape drive units will require a firmware upgrade to use the UCC. For this purpose customers should contact the tape drive manufacturer or system vendor for firmware upgrade information. The user must also keep the tracks of the numbers of times used and discarded a cleaning cartridge when it has reached the maximum number of uses for tape drive model. Some tape drive models aren't allowing cleaning unless the drive is requesting an HP LTO Universal cleaning tape, if users try to insert the HP UCC when tape drive does not need to be cleaned, the LTO Ultrium tape drive need to be cleaned, the tape drive will automatically eject the cleaning tape. HP C7978A is LTO Universal Cleaning Cartridge which improved tape drive head and tape durability through regular use. All brands of Universal Cleaning cartridge and HP C7978A are available at itdevicesonline.com