Windows 10: Windows 11 TPM, wanting to hot swap my hard drives with windows 11 between 2 computers

Hi and thanks for your time on reading.For the past yr I've been hot swapping my my windows 10 M2 SSD and another M2 drive which I use as storage between my home desktop computer and an ITX computer for when I want to work at my partners place abroad. I've been doing this fine without any issue as its a case of just plug and play, removing the Boot drive that has windows 10 and removing the storage drive also and plugging them into what PC i will be using. In light of TPM and my lack of knowledge on it, can i still continue to do this if I had windows 11 installed knowing that both systems hav

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Hot Swap and fitting second Hard Drive

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I just received my purchased MEDION AKOYA P5218 F - Intel Core i5-6400, 2,7GHz, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750, WLAN, Windows 10 Desktop computer.

Since I had recently just bought a WD 1TB Black Hard Drive I wanted to fit this inside.

Although there appears to be a tiny cramped space for a second Hard Drive (have marked the place where I think it should go? and use any free electric cable in that bundle?) I was unable to see anywhere to plug the cable into the motherboard.

I bought this computer as replacement to my i3 3220 which was no longer good enough for my multimedia software; I did not have a lot of money over, but wanted an i5, so this was my compromise (but extremely wary - Medion!!). I did read it had a "Hot Swap" but did not really understand what this was (other than you could easily swap drives):


Hot-swap mobile rack - Swap hard drives quickly and easily – even while the PC is running. Perfect for data backups, data exchange and alternative operating systems.

http://www.medion.com/gb/shop/multim...ed-description


But fully understand I did not!

Anyway - and I am just guessing here - it looks like the Hot Swap is using the motherboard socket for a possible second Hard Drive. And there is no other free socket.

So - guessing again - if I have understand correctly from Google searches - the Hot Swap is not intended to be used as a second internal Hard Drive ? Or have I understood wrong? Can it be used for my second Hard Drive?

Really confused here about this!!! SO HELP!

If not I guess I will have to unplug the Hot Swap and use this to plug my second Hard Drive?


ANOTHER but related question:

The built in Hard Drive looks to be a 1 TB WD Blue

The Hard Drive I want to build in is a 1 TB WD Black

As far as I can tell the Black is a better drive than the Blue (was certainly more expensive)

So should I move the system (if I am capable of doing this easy - have no experience and not that computer technical) from the Blue to the Black? (does it bring significant performance or none?)

Or just leave it as it is?

AND - guessing again - I figure I might be able to use this Hot Swap to somehow move my system over to the black (only if it is better for system performance?) - clone/copy - or? have never used such a thing (Hot Swap) before so unsure about this?

Really stuck here on this Hot Swap be glad of speedy help - and many thanks

 

TPM and Windows 11.

No, it's not changed to 1.2. Windows 11 will not be offered as an upgrade option in Windows Update unless the PC has TPM 2.0.

Update on Windows 11 minimum system requirements and PC Health Check app | Windows 11 Forum

What has changed, as reported in that article Samuria gave a link for, is that MS will apparently allow you to upgrade manually using an ISO on an unsupported device, and if it has TPM 1.2 then it is certainly unsupported.

Whether you'd actually want to install W11 on an unsupported device is another matter, when MS say 'unsupported' they really mean it in all senses of the word. That article goes on to say that: "..."unsupported" Windows 11 PCs won't be entitled to receive Windows Updates".

 

TPM and Windows 11.

Its changed to tpm 1.2 Does Windows 11 require TPM 2.0? We have good news and bad news | Tom's Guide