I knew something was fishy when I enabled Bitlocker on an OPAL compliant SSD and it took a few minutes to encrypt it. OPAL drives are supposed to be encrypted b

I knew something was fishy when I enabled Bitlocker on an OPAL compliant SSD and it took a few minutes to encrypt it. OPAL drives are supposed to be encrypted by default, and I expected Bitlocker to use that, but it didn't. If only one specific set of hardware is needed, why bother?