Unclip your pager and bag from your belt: We need to make room for a battery-powered 1TB HD

VR folk who feel they haven't got enough gear strapped to their bodies will be please to know Seagate has developed a strap-on portable drive and battery combo for HTC's Vive Focus virtual reality headset. The VR Power Drive has 1TB of capacity and a 5,000mAh battery hooked up to the headset with an integrated MicroB cable and …

[Starace]

Not a new idea

I had a battery powered drive hooked up to my Nokia N850 back when that was still new.

Packaging wasn't quite so tidy (battery pack + WD USB drive + OTG cable) but the result was the same.

Ultimately pointless back then, and still pretty pointless now!

[derfer]

Is that a 1TB hard drive in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?

Oh, you can't hear the question, as you've got your VR headset on!

[John Brown (no body)]

A spinning disk attached to ones belt? I wonder what restrictions are included in the warranty? No running or jogging while in use? No sporting activities?

[Shugyosha]

Portable spinning disk

Oh, like an iPod you mean? Yeah you're right - those things were a disastrous failure.

[Cuddles]

"No running or jogging while in use? No sporting activities?"

While watching a film wearing a VR headset? No, probably not. Even the most active games are unlikely to present any meaningful issue for a modern hard drive, especially given that most people have significantly less space to prance around in than advertising materials tend to suggest and so are rather more likely to damage a hard drive by landing on it when they trip over the sofa.

[Anonymous Coward]

HTC desperately trying to stay relevant with VR as its phone business is languishing

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/03/htc-is-looking-for-a-savior-in-vr-but-it-wont-find-it/

VR should be led by a consortium of gaming companies. There's no point letting OEMs do their own thing.

[cmaurand]

A spinning drive in something portable that's going to get bumped around...really? What year is this?