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In honor of Pi Day yesterday, Western Digital's WDLabs unit launched a new 314GB storage device (see what they did there?) engineered just for the Raspberry Pi community. Offering features like low-power USB operation, the WD PiDrive 314GB has a suggested retail price of $45.81, but Western Digital is offering a limited-time discount of 31.4 percent (there it is again), for a total of $31.42 (math!).
The device is based on Western Digital's high-volume 500GB platform, but the company made some design changes to optimize it for the Raspberry Pi.
"Customizations made to the drive's magnetic recording and electrical system operating set-points…reduce the electrical power load of the hard drive on Raspberry Pi, while still maintaining sufficient performance to deliver maximum USB data transfer rate," the company said.
The WD PiDrive 314GB is compatible with all WD PiDrive cables, cable kits, and WD PiDrive enclosures.
The Raspberry Pi 3features a 1.2GHz 64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 CPU offering 10 times the performance of the original Raspberry Pi 1, with the same $35 price tag as earlier models.
WD PiDrive Boosts Raspberry Pi's Storage to 314GB | News & Opinion | PCMag.com