Cleaning Tape Expired date

[kakaluru]

Hello Team

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

If so, please let me know?

[CRZ · Accepted solution]

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 · Accepted solution]

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

[kakaluru]

Thx for the information

[mph999]

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.