This line has seen several updates, the first being the T10000B drive [http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-07/sunflash.20080714.2.xml], which doubled storage to 1 TB on the same media cartridges as used by the T10000 drive while also providing backward read compatibility. In January 2011, the T10000C tape drive was introduced, along with a new tape cartridge—the "T10000 T2"—capable of storing 5 TB of data natively. The T10000D drive was announced in September 2013 with a native, non-compressed 8.5 TB capacity using the same T10000 T2 cartridge.