Computer Tape Cleaners

Is your data center experiencing read/write problems with its tape cartridge library? The best solution is to clean your tape cartridges. Data Devices offers a complete line of computer tape cleaners for every tape requirement.

Dust, dirt, and oxide residue not only contaminates your computer tape itself, but these forms of contamination spread to the drive. Drive contamination either requires the drive to be excessively cleaned with fabric head cleaners or wet-cleaned by a certified drive maintenance organization. Drive contamination and the resulting hardware cleaning can be reduced or eliminated by careful and regular cleaning of the tape.

Our broad line of computer tape cleaning equipment will permit users to clean LTO, DLT, SDLT, 3590, 3491e and tape reels so the tape may be mounted on your computer and perform trouble-free and with extreme accuracy and fewer retries. This saves you computer time and prevents frustrating shut-downs.

Users who are upgrading to newer systems need the STAR 3590 Magnetic Cartridge Inspector/Cleaner to clean and retension tape before it is copied to newer and more efficient systems. Reducing contamination is required so read failures are not copied onto LTO tape cartridges that are then placed into use in the new system.

Our 3491e Magnetic Cartridge Inspector/Cleaner continues to be extremely important for tape maintenance, as this tape is older or often covered by dust, dirt, and oxide residue. Users need to clean every tape before use, because removing dirt, dust and debris enables your computer system to work more efficiently.

Our 3491e and 3590 computer tape cleaners enable you to clean all of the tape in your library for proper long-term maintenance – or so that, when necessary, transferring your data library to LTO cartridges will be easy and trouble-free.

We also offer a full line of consumable supplies for our line of tape equipment.