I assume it’s the lock the drive to that machine so you possibly can not take away it. Form of bummed about that however I perceive the logic. Sony (and MS) do this now with the optical drives within the PS5/SX. If the optical fails, it’s essential to take away the drive board and fix it to a different optical drive to ensure that it to work as a result of the drive board is married to the mainboard.
I figured them going this route would alleviate this difficulty and make for simpler changing of the drive. Its nonetheless simpler, simply that you just possible must undergo this pairing every time you exchange the drive. I might additionally assume you must pair it for those who needed to simply pop the drive off and plug into one other slim. Like a mates otherwise you get one other one for one more room however dont need to spend money on one other drive.
Perhaps the drive might be paired to a couple of system…? That may be cool too. It’s meant to be removable and never a everlasting fixture. So they’d needed to have thought of all situations.