Western Digital introduced HDD priced at $ 46 and a volume of 314 GB specifically for the Raspberry Pi per day Pi

The “raspberry” more and more accessories. Various companies, including the Raspberry Pi Foundation itself , produce enclosures, add-on modules, and displays for this mini-PC. Decided to keep up and the company Western Digital. She has released an inexpensive hard drive designed for use with the Raspberry Pi. This specialized HDD PiDrive is called . His announcement is timed to the day of Pi.

The disc is based on the Western Digital Blue model, which costs $ 45.81 (but now it can be purchased for $ 31.42 on the manufacturer’s website). This model is actively used by manufacturers of all kinds of laptops in the primary and secondary price segment, as well as budget PCs. The difference between Western Digital Blue and PiDrive is the interface. The latest model is USB. The disk is designed for direct connection to the “raspberry”, which significantly improves the performance of the entire system.

By the way, WD even earlier released the so-called PiDrive Kit, priced at $ 79.99 with a large amount of memory - this is about 1 TB.
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314 GB PiDrive will be supplied with BerryBoot loaders, which facilitates the task of installing and working with several OS at once on one storage medium. The new PiDrive is compatible with existing cables and enclosures from the same manufacturer.

The Raspberry Pi 3 Model B was released on February 29, 2016, four years after the release of the first mini-PC model. The device features are as follows:

• Processor: 4-core 64-bit ARM Cortex-A53 at 1.2 GHz (~ 10x Raspberry Pi 1 performance)
• Memory: 1 GB LPDDR2-900 SDRAM
• Built-in 802.11b / g / n and Bluetooth 4.1
• Full compatibility with Raspberry Pi 1 and 2

Cost - $ 35.