AMD Halts StoreMI Technology distribution, Will be Replaced
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vbetts
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I had it configured with a 64gb partition from my ssd and a 2tb hdd, and really for gaming it didn't give me a huge advantage for loading times. The big difference I saw was with games that streamed in textures. Maybe if I moved files back and forth, or just wanted to maintain one drive I could see how this would be beneficial. But definitely not needed with how cheap both ssd and hdd are now.
Crazy Serb
Cutting out software like this is amazing decision by AMD. People can't lose their data because they wanted to try it out (or pay for a tool to recover partition if software was uninstalled with single drive).
G13Homi
using diskpart, i was always able to successfully remove it from my HDD for a reformat.
But like others have already stated, there are many programs that have the same function.
SethNW
Personally I just went full SSD, so my stuff are always on fast storage. I don't really need huge storage. 2TB is plenty for me. And SSDs got cheaper. So I have 2 SSDs and no need for StoreMI.
wavetrex
Dak5.9
I have used it for almost 2 years for my game drive. It most definitely speeds up loading of your frequently used games. Only had a problem once when the hard drive developed a few bad sectors it would not show up in windows but a scan with a HDD Regenerator boot disk fixed that easily. I wouldn't use it as a boot drive for your operating system though. I am hoping the next software lets you use more then 256gb of your fast drive though. 512gb would be sweet.
Fox2232
Downside of
Exactly. Setup requires one to select "Slow" and "Fast" drive which should be used as extra cache. And only after that one can add RAM cache.
But I have only SSD for OS where I do not need any extra boosting. And setting one NVMe as slow while another as fast is kind of sad joke.