The Linear tape open media format is most reliable and successful for backup and storage. This based on magnetic Ultrium technology, which developed in mid 90s by world most reliable and well-known leading manufacturer of storage devices HP, IBM, and Seagate. The HP LTO Ultrium media tape is perfect solution for rapidly growing corporate and digital data. Its dependable design and solid structure is suitable through very intensive and harsh conditions and it is durable enough to use more than 30 years. The LTO Ultrium prior drives functioned in a diversity of surroundings that stand little similarity to the lift up floor rooms take pleasure in by their data storage associates. Although Ultrium tape drives intended to survive perfectly and safely in very irregular behaviors, you can make the most of their presentation and steadfastness by subsequent the easy suggestions in this article. HP is a specialist in storage and backup products, The LTO Ultrium media cartridges, and tape drives firmly tested according to the HP qualifications and according to the Ultrium Logo specifications. As a co founder of this remarkable media format HP always give importance to its dependability and best performance with very low costs.

If you want to store you valuable information in perfect and best protection, you must need to select high quality, best, durable, and branded media, which certified by LTO consortium. The Ultrium drives planned to work through particular kind of media tape, which has specified qualities and reliabilities, and compatible with these robust tape drives. If you try to buy a cheap or uncertified media tape and use in these Ultrium logo drives, you will pay at end in untimely media and headwear, deprived backup presentation reasoned by unnecessary blunder revival, and perhaps, tape drive downtime reasoned by these unhealthy and poor conditioned media cartridge. Therefore, we recommend using only certified C7978A, and Ultrium logo media format with complete guarantee and quality head cleaning. There are many other reason which can impact your drive performance these could be natural of unnatural, the intensive harsh ecological conditions, heat and cold temperatures, unhealthy operating conditions, and nonstop use of these drives and cartridge also caused for poor performance of the drive.

The magnetic tape stains and debris gathering on the surface of drive head during heavy and frequent load and unload processes, and it is major cause for lower performance of the Ultrium drive. Use only best in market HP C7978A, a universal cleaning cartridge that are design for reliable cleaning and compatible with all existed Ultrium drive generations from LTO1, LTO 2, LTO-3, LTO 4 and LTO5. The modern day's high tech drives are able to monitor its self with the help of backup software and when they find debris and stains on the head surface, they will indicate for cleaning through a Led lamp.

The cleaning process is very easy just insert the cartridge and drive automatically start further process and stop when cleaning done. The capacity of these reliable universal cleaning cartridge most depend on drives, some drives let them cleaning for more than 50 times and some just allow them for 15 times. And if the cartridge is over used the drive will not accept it and declare it as an expired cleaning cartridge the users should retired this cartridge and used new HP LTO cleaning tape, for further processes.