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SCENARIO: I have a Windows 10 box which functions as a network-attached file-server and a media PC connected through HDMI to my Sony Bravia TV.
Last week, I picked up an 8TB Seagate Barracuda for my 3.5" hot-swap bay, formatted it, scanned it with Stablebit scanner, and then backed up my movie collection and other files to the Seagate.
I had got used to the fact that this computer, when running, shows the drive light on the front panel giving a blink every minute or so. While I was formatting the hot-swap drive and copying files to it, the drive activity lights on my computer were on --- as one would expect.
OK. Done with that. I shut it down for a half hour, unplugged the power cable, and installed a TPM 2.0 module on the motherboard. This system is the same as my others -- same Z170 motherboard, RAM and it has a Skylake processor. BIOS shows the TPM module installed when I plugged it in, switched on the PSU, booted up. No drive light. Not sure what gives with this, because I did absolutely nothing careless during this TPM-installation operation.
The boot disk is an NVME 1TB. The storage disks are on a Super-Micro SATA controller -- 4 3TB Hitachi drives. Stablebit shows nothing wrong with those.
Maybe I'm worried about nothing. Everything is working A-OK. Would a TPM 2.0 module change the behavior of the system with regard to attached storage?
Last week, I picked up an 8TB Seagate Barracuda for my 3.5" hot-swap bay, formatted it, scanned it with Stablebit scanner, and then backed up my movie collection and other files to the Seagate.
I had got used to the fact that this computer, when running, shows the drive light on the front panel giving a blink every minute or so. While I was formatting the hot-swap drive and copying files to it, the drive activity lights on my computer were on --- as one would expect.
OK. Done with that. I shut it down for a half hour, unplugged the power cable, and installed a TPM 2.0 module on the motherboard. This system is the same as my others -- same Z170 motherboard, RAM and it has a Skylake processor. BIOS shows the TPM module installed when I plugged it in, switched on the PSU, booted up. No drive light. Not sure what gives with this, because I did absolutely nothing careless during this TPM-installation operation.
The boot disk is an NVME 1TB. The storage disks are on a Super-Micro SATA controller -- 4 3TB Hitachi drives. Stablebit shows nothing wrong with those.
Maybe I'm worried about nothing. Everything is working A-OK. Would a TPM 2.0 module change the behavior of the system with regard to attached storage?
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