AMD Halts StoreMI Technology distribution, Will be Replaced
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mentor07825
Has anyone used it? I'd like to hear what people think on how it benefited them. I've never used it myself. Opting instead right now to save up and slowly replace my hard drives with Solid State.
mannix
I've never heard of anyone using it, curious too.
One of the best software in absolute I ever bought is Primocache:
https://www.romexsoftware.com/en-us/primo-cache/
Speeds up SSDs and HDDs, it just works as intended.
G13Homi
https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/amd-storemi.431368/
Ive been using is since my 2700x came out. Very nice tool.
glutto
That was fast. (pun intended?)
I've looked into this several times but never tried it. I guess bcache would be the better option.
sonix1977nl
I am also using this software since I got my Ryzen 2700X. I actually bought Enmotus Fuzedrive so that it could handle SSDs up to 1 TB of size.
I had two instances in which my system became unbootable.
The first one was because the hard disk actually was defect and had bad sectors.
The second time it seems to be because of Fuzedrive itself. No bad hardware at all, just unable to boot because of a corrupted system file. Even system restore and system rescue didn't work anymore even following advice from the support manual.
But I really love not having to worry anymore about on which disk to install a game or moving games from one disk to another manually based on my usage.
DonMigs85
Been using it since late 2018 when I put together my B450-based system. It's been good and relatively stable but about once every week or two I get DPC Watchdog BSODs that reference storport.sys or the Samsung NVME driver. I went ahead and bought the discounted $10 Fuzedrive upgrade because they said the next version will have a re-linearization feature to "un-Fuze" the drives (could be useful if I ever plan to switch to AMD's upcoming solution)
Valkyr09
I did try StoreMI. It was no better than before. It did do some odd errors and I had a few conflicts with Samsung NVME driver. What pissed me though was that you could not uninstall it. I had to reformat my whole system to remove the damn thing. Now I stay away from that StoreMI thing. It is the devil incarnate. Good riddance.
Astyanax
sounds like you've never updated the samsung nvme driver.
OnnA
My NVMe shows 27GB/s 😛 (4GB from RAM, 4KB Block Size)
Neo Cyrus
I tried using it once but setting it up was annoying for some reason so I said fuck it and didn't. Annoying driver issues, the eternal bane of AMD.
rl66
tried it once, it was really fast but as i have hardware that have the same feature, i don't use it on my computer (just have a NVMe in it)
schmidtbag
I never understood why AMD made it in the first place, considering the alternatives. Perhaps they were feeling left out because of Optane but that doesn't really make sense considering AMD doesn't make storage devices, whereas Intel has for a long time.
connos
You had to use DriverStoreExplorer and manually remove it.
LimitbreakOr
I've been using it and loving it, I matched a intel 240GB SSD to a 6TB western digital blue Drive and it honestly feels like I have a 6TB SSD. I have my entire steam library installed on it all at once, what helps is that the slow drive is no slouch, i've had it running with a Toshiba 2TB 7200rpm drive before but it was not only noisy but was lagging up the entire thing so you don't want your slow drive to be too slow as it also matters. It's unfortunate that AMD has discontinued this, I really hope their alternative will be better.
Amaze
It was the main selling point of 4x0 boards right? Pretty sure it's why I went x370 instead.
Agonist
Finally get an X470 board, and it's removed. Just, lovely timing.
Astyanax
you can still use it
Agonist
Cant download it. But i haven't looked hard for it. I wanted to try a cheap 256gb nvme with a new 6tb.
chispy
I tried the software once , it works as intended but you will feel the benefits only if you still used Hard drives along an ssd. Now i only have NVMe for boot drive and big storage cheap SSD so it does not feel any faster with this software so i uninstall it.
Mundosold
Primocache is great software. Store MI had very limited configuration options, plus I think it uses a proprietary format that would make data recovery in case of failure difficult.
I use Primocache then a $35 256GB nvme as a cache for my 3TB gaming partition. Then it automatically caches games as I play them, giving ssd like speeds while older games I haven't touched in a while get cleared out. Sure I could manage it all manually or use junction points or move games between steam libraries but that is no fun.
The only thing is that SSDs are almost at the point where you can store all your games on them.. But not quite yet, a 2TB ssd still runs over $200 and I don't think I'd be comfortable until 4TB since games are so big these days.
