Licensing issues with having 2 different computers sharing an SSD

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I'll try and make this as simple as I can, but it's kind of a long question...

I live in 2 places at once, and I only like desktops for the type of thing I do. These 2 places are across the world, and I'd rather not put my pc on a plane when I move. My solution is to carry my ssd instead. Now, my problem with this solution is that licensing will be seriously annoying, because the 2 computers will likely have different parts, and so when the licenses detect a change in hardware, I will have to reactivate. So here are my questions:

1. If the PC were to have the same parts, would that prevent the licensing problem? Does the license detect the model of the part or the actual serial number or something?

2. If I were to instead have separate SSDs for each computer, I would like to have it so that if the data was changed in one place, and then I moved, that the data would be in the second place. Is there some sort of online service that could handle such a sync?

3. If I were to use such an online service, would the licensing still screw up?

My biggest problem is licensing, anything else is really ok.

Any input is appreciated!
 
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The OS is tied to the motherboard and drivers of a PC. It generally doesn't allow swapping the drive and OS. I've never tried using identical systems, but think you might run into activation problems at the very least. I don't know if this would work for you, but saving your data to a cloud storage service would allow you to access it no matter where you were. Microsoft One Drive and Google Drive are even free.

http://windows.wonderhowto.com/how-to/set-up-onedrive-sync-files-across-all-your-devices-windows-10-0162961/
The OS is tied to the motherboard and drivers of a PC. It generally doesn't allow swapping the drive and OS. I've never tried using identical systems, but think you might run into activation problems at the very least. I don't know if this would work for you, but saving your data to a cloud storage service would allow you to access it no matter where you were. Microsoft One Drive and Google Drive are even free.

http://windows.wonderhowto.com/how-to/set-up-onedrive-sync-files-across-all-your-devices-windows-10-0162961/
 
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