Western Digital introduced a $ 46 HDD with a capacity of 314 GB specifically for the Raspberry Pi on Pi Day

Raspberry has more and more accessories. Various companies, including the Raspberry Pi Foundation itself , produce cases, additional modules, displays for this mini-PC. Western Digital also decided to keep up. She has released an inexpensive hard drive designed for use with the Raspberry Pi. This specialized PiDrive HDD is called . His announcement is dedicated to the day of Pi.

The disc is based on the Western Digital Blue model, the cost of which is $ 45.81 (but now you can buy it for $ 31.42 on the manufacturer’s website). This model is actively used by manufacturers of various kinds of laptops of the initial and middle 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 greatly 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 - we are talking about 1 TB.

314 GB PiDrive will be supplied with BerryBoot bootloaders, which facilitates the task of installing and working with multiple OSs on a single storage medium. The new PiDrive is compatible with existing cables and cases from the same manufacturer.

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

• Processor: Quad-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
• Fully compatible with Raspberry Pi 1 and 2

Cost - $ 35.