I can see this being a killer feature for the cheapo family builds where you donât even need to leave multiple drives available to confuse mom and dad.
Adding to that, this a great feature for prebuilts for the same reason. Better performance and no visible BS. I hope this pushes AMD further into the mainstream markets again.
What makes StoreMI better than other âshityâ tiered storage implementations mentioned in the video?
It is definitely a selling point for this generation of the chipset right now. I highly doubt this technology will be widely adopted among normal consumers though.
Will this become a well-maintained feature through several generations or just another buggy implementation in the corner? Only time can tell.
Looking forward to the linux side of this discussion⊠ZFS has been a âwork in progressâ to take full advantage of tiered storage by itself. It just never expected to have drives as fast as nvmeâŠ
Iâve seen talk of having scaling from tape to ram-drive and everyting in-between, but I havenât had time to or inclination to be this close to the edge. raid6 + caching continues to be the best cross-product of speed and data integrity (write in particular) for me, but I really want to move to ZFS for its backup, sync, container, etc⊠featuresâŠ
So that tech doesnât work on the 300 series boards. Do I need the 2000 series CPUs then?
If I upgrade the motherboard and keep the Ryzen 1000 series, can I use that technology?
Wendell, if this is entirely a software technology does that mean we can have a free and open source implementation on Linux? Perhaps even on the B450 platform? We donât need AMDâs blessings for this, do we?
If I were to buy an SSHD (ie Seagate firecuda) and pair that with an M.2 NVME drive (Samsung 960 Evo) would it be better than pairing the same M.2 NVME drive with a traditional Hard Drive (ie seagate barracuda)?
Iâm curious to know if there would be any advantages in this scenario for an SSHD over an HDD.
p.s. the YouTube video on StoreMi was very informative
I am hoping this is just a problem with the installer on the website since it worked with the press version⊠I emailed AMD they arenât sure so we will see I guess.
Maybe Iâm an outlier, but I used Intel Smart Response Technology for years without any issues. I had an Intel 330 60GB SSD paired with a dog-slow 2TB WD Green drive. The combination worked pretty well, Windows booted quickly, my most recent games loaded quickly, and I never lost any data.
Now perhaps the reason I never lost any data was that I always used write-through caching and not write-back caching - cause, ya know, I like my data. Sure enough, I had a few power outages and crashes, but the Intel software always rebuilt whatever index it needed and I was able to continue onward.
Breaking the SSD/HD pair was pretty easy too. Just turn off âAcceleratedâ mode in the Intel software and reboot.
Now I just wish I could use StoreMI on my X370 systemâŠ
