FearLess Posted April 6, 2020 Posted April 6, 2020 AMD has pulled the plug on its StoreMI technology, the drive caching technology that it gave away free with 400-series motherboards. Support actually ended on the 31st March, which means you can no longer download the tool from AMD's site. You can keep using it if you've already downloaded it (obviously), although AMD offers no technical or end user support from now, which isn't ideal. There is a replacement on the way at least. "AMD will focus its internal development resources on a replacement solution with a rearchitected feature set and a planned release window of 2Q20." AMD stated in its Product Change Advisory. The advisory continues, "Those seeking a storage acceleration solution after March 31, 2020 may wait for the new AMD solution, or may seek an alternative solution such as Enmotus FuzeDrive." Enmotus worked with AMD to produce StoreMI. If you visit this page on the Enmotus site, you'll discover that it is offering free technical support for AMD users of the StoreMI until the 15th May, which could indicate the day on which AMD's replacement comes out. I built a system around StoreMI when it was introduced a couple of years ago in response to Intel's Optane caching system, with the release of AMD's Zen+ CPUs, and it worked well. The idea is certainly promising enough—combine the performance of an SSD with the capacity of a traditional hard drive to get lots of speedy storage. It takes a while for the caching to kick in, but once it does it seems to deliver on the promise.
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