Windows 10: Windows 11 TPM Disadvantages ?

I've been waiting for quiet some time now to pull the trigger to upgrade to win 11 for it to become stable enough and also had a few concerns about enabling TPM. As we all know Win 11 made it mandatory to enable TPM. So I was a bit concerned about the potential disadvantages to having TPM enabled since it in theory should prevent you from swapping HDD to gain access to the data, but being a developer I do certainly have an habit to swap my driver frequently. I don't use bit-locker currently and also dont plan to use it , for the simple reason that I tend to swap drives , just the nature o

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Need help on whether to clear TPM on not

It's clear as mud. As far as I can tell, it's specific to Windows, not necessarily activated programs like MacAfee, games, etc etc etc. MS Office, I have no idea.

Here's a lengthy doc on it: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/wi...initialize-and-configure-ownership-of-the-tpm

 

TPM support

The TPM 2.0 specifications can be implemented by a hardware chip, in which case it will be listed in the bios as 'TPM'. Newer processors can also support a firmware implementation of TPM 2.0. This is where it gets confusing as that may be listed in the bios as fTPM or PTT. All implementations of TPM 2.0, hardware or firmware, will meet the W11 requirements.

TPM 2.0 for Windows 11 - What about Intel PTT and AMD fTPM?

 

TPM update

Don't know if this is the right place for this thread but whatever, laptop informed me that " a firmware update is needed for you security processor (TPM)," now, i looked up what to do and from a microsoft support thing, the last step says to clear the tpm. it has a warning saying to back up my data, i would like to know what clearing the tpm does, and what measures i need to take to make sure nothing goes wrong.