HP C7973A is Ultrium technology magnetic based media format and it is 3rd generation of HP LTO Ultrium most reliable and productive lineup. HP LTO-3 enhanced with storage data with 400GB native and 800GB of compressed through increased its data transfer speed with 80MB/Sec native and 160MB/Sec of compressed formation with outstanding 2:1 compression rate. The C7973A is enable to makes smoother base film surface with new coating and dispersion techniques with use of finest metal particles and increased data track 704 better from previous LTO2 and LTO1 tapes, with improved tape length 680M respectively. HP next generation is fully compatible with all branded Ultrium 3 Tape drives automated libraries and autoloaders with backward read and writes compatibility. HP LTO-3 tape offers more than million passes within tape cartridge and offer more than 30 years working capability. HP LTO-3 tape has a non-contact memory chip LTO-CM that offers reliable and smooth working relation between cartridge and tape drive and helps drives to reach dependent data with very high speed. The next generation tape offers Yellow color that makes it more notes able amid other LTO tapes generations.