Software-AMD UPDATES ITS STOREMI SOFTWARE TO SUPPORT THREADRIPPER PRO AND SSD PARTITIONS

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AMD released its StoreMi storage drive acceleration software in 2018. It is software created by Enmotus and has a commercial version called Enmotus FuzzyDrive. The idea behind this technology is very similar to what Intel had with the first Optane units: An SSD that caches our HDD and accelerates the performance of our equipment.

 

StoreMi came free of charge for AMD's X470 chipsets and Ryzen 2000s. It wasn't too successful, partly because it was limited to high-end chipsets and enthusiast users already have fast SSDs as main drives, and partly because it is assumed that abusing an SSD as a cache can shorten its life, in addition to that AMD did not do enough promotion of it, although it did try as we can read here. The company behind the software already pointed out at the time that it was not exactly a cache, but that the most used data was directly moved to the fastest unit.

 

StoreMi did not have a good acceptance, and last April AMD announced that it would stop supporting it, although whoever was using it could continue using it, it was understood that the company's new products would not have support for this software. However, it was not a final goodbye, as AMD said it was working on a replacement for StoreMI.

 

 

And it was in September when we saw that AMD released StoreMI version 2, although the company continues to keep the name of StoreMi dry from the software. By then they fixed several bugs, and changed part of the concept of the technology so that the "cached" data would also be kept on the source drive instead of being changed drives. Although this means more space occupied, it avoids data loss in the event of an accident such as the disconnection of the SSD or a malfunction or interruption of the program, etc. In addition to this change, AMD expanded support for more chipsets, including the B450 ideal for cheaper computers, where it is easier to find mixed SSD + HDD solutions

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And it seems that AMD is still determined to expand the user base, and today we see that they have released a new version of it in which support is added for the Ryzen Threadripper Pro, in addition to the TRX40 and WRX80 chipsets. Another novelty is that we can now create a partition on our SSD exclusively for the cache task.

So currently StoreMi works with 500, 400, X399, TRX40 and WRX80 series chipsets and can be downloaded from the official AMD website.