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kakaluru
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10 years ago
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Cleaning Tape Expired date

Hello Team

Is it possible to find out expiry date for Cleaning tapes ?

If so, please let me know?

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  • CRZ's avatar
    CRZ
    10 years ago

    This question is better asked of the manufacturer of your cleaning tapes.  In general, the answer is usually more a factor of number of uses of the tape than of any particular time period.

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    GulzarShaikhAUS
    10 years ago

    As suggested by Chris, the exact information is available with manufacturer and it mostly depends on the tape type. There is a good article about tape media lifespan which can give you some information.

    How to estimate the lifespan of LTO tapes
    http://searchdatabackup.techtarget.com/tip/How-to-estimate-the-lifespan-of-LTO-tapes

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  • CRZ's avatar
    CRZ
    Level 6
    10 years ago

    This question is better asked of the manufacturer of your cleaning tapes.  In general, the answer is usually more a factor of number of uses of the tape than of any particular time period.

  • GulzarShaikhAUS's avatar
    GulzarShaikhAUS
    Level 6
    10 years ago

    As suggested by Chris, the exact information is available with manufacturer and it mostly depends on the tape type. There is a good article about tape media lifespan which can give you some information.

    How to estimate the lifespan of LTO tapes
    http://searchdatabackup.techtarget.com/tip/How-to-estimate-the-lifespan-of-LTO-tapes

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    mph999
    Level 6
    10 years ago

    Four LTO you have 40 - 50 cleaning cycles.

    The reason it varies is because the different makes/ brands of drives have slightly different cleaning cycles.