Western Digital Offers Third Generation WD PiDrive Solution

[HardOCP News]

WDLabs™, a business growth incubator and accelerator of storage solutions leader Western Digital Corporation, today announced availability of the WD® PiDrive Foundation Edition products, which combine microSD™ card and USB drive functionality with operating system installation software to provide the Raspberry Pi® community an integrated and highly affordable storage system solution for fast project creation. Custom software, based on the Raspberry Pi Foundation's Raspbian OS and NOOBS OS installer, is included with the new system and provides very easy installation of OSes on the USB drive. The large capacity of the drive enables an exclusive 'Project Spaces' feature, which allows installation of multiple instances of the core OS, creating independent spaces for project creation or support for multiple users with isolated work spaces.