Just had a guy round my house, buying some Watercooling gear, and he commented that his 1TB storage drive is tied to his motherboard.

I can understand a drive with a pre-installed OS recovery partition being linked - meaning an OEM OS is tied to a board, (even then a full format would render the drive usable); but a standard HDD?

I queried him on it, but he insists it will not work with any other board; and was told to expect that when he bought it as part of a bundle.

I've been building PCs for nearly 20 years, and I've never heard of that before.

Anyone?

I have not heard of it either. Though only ever specified components in new builds. Could it have non standard connections? Though could it has china only drives? Special connection just made and adopted in china?


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The OS will be "tied" to the motherboard, but would (generally) just need new drivers (and possibly a new licence key).

Unless the drive has an unusual connector, it shouldn't be tied to the Mobo - some new SSD "drives" are soldered onto the motherboard, but not normal drives.

I bet he's set it to Dynamic.

A dynamic drive needs all the other drives in a system to be present in order to work.

Interesting..

How does it work, and what benefits does it offer?

The only "benefits" are things like software RAID & spanning. Quite a lot of people select it by mistake or by not knowing what it is & think it sounds better.
All I ever find it does is cause problems as you cannot convert it back without destroying the data on it.