The HP C7978A Cleaning Tape can be practiced in equally HP & Non HP Ultrium tape drives and automatic libraries . The Heavy operating cycles and unstoppable backup and storage processes decreased the Ultrium tape drive performance ability due to magnetic fragments on drive head which have to clean with reliable HP LTO Cleaning tapes to make the read and write performance accurate and stable . These cleaning tapes are manufactured with special formulated technologies and facilitates the drives with the outstanding cleaning capability and endure the drive's performance . The HP Ultrium Universal Cleaning Cartridge C7978A has excellent capacity of 50 cleanings but most of the time it depends on specific tape drive. The cleaning process is very easy and these cartridges should use when the Ultrium drive's light is illuminated therefore it is not required the routine cleaning procedures it is all depend on Ultrium tape drives when they need cleaning. If the cartridge has already expired the tape drive will not accept the cartridge for further cleaning process. The TapeAlert function becomes activated if the cleaning cartridge completes its life span. The universal LTO tapes have compatibility with all LTO generations and different branded Ultrium tape drives . The LTO Cleaning tapes are available in distinguishing Orange color which is easily identified among other media cartridges. All the HP Cleaning Cartridge has a built in memory chip which is also known as LTO-CM, Memory chip contains more important information about cartridge usage history and allow to communicate with tape drive during cleaning processes. Memory chip also accelerates the access speed. These cleaning cartridges are designed to work with all Ultrium tape drives but most of the drives which are manufactured before 2002 they need particular upgrading to be compatible with HP UCC. It is extremely essential to follow a perfect and reliable procedure to clean the Ultrium tape drive head with HP UCC in order to improve the existence of your drives as well cartridge performance . At Snztech.com we feel great pride in being the pioneering LTO tapes distributor for numerous medium and large sized businesses amongst our vast consumer base all over the world since more than a decade. We provide all type of LTO backup and cleaning tapes at discounted price .