Overall and Final Verdict

So hopefully now you have a better idea what StoreMI is all about. For Ryzen and Threadripper owners, this is an interesting area where AMD has actually added value to a purchase long after some of you may have built your system. So the performance numbers really speak for themselves, StoreMI can offer a new way of dealing with your storage and while AMD provided the hard drive and SATA based SSD for this test, there are some other unique things you can do. If you want you could actually run two SSDs. Pairing an Intel Optane drive or an NVMe SSD for the fast drive along with another higher capacity SSD could give you the performance of a much more expensive high capacity NVMe at a cheaper price.

This is also a good way for system builders to simplify the idea of SSDs for users who don’t seem to have any concept of using two drives. You know who I’m talking about, the person who stores everything on their SSD or that doesn’t pay any attention to where things are installed (by default your C drive) or where files are saved. Your OS can be installed on this drive as well, but the setup is more complicated. Given that you can pick up a 128GB NVMe drive for about $50 this is a great way to see a big performance boost. Not to mention anyone with a little extra RAM should really consider running the RAMCache as well. There were a couple of slowdowns, but I think overall you are basically getting free performance.

Now the whole system could see some improvements, mostly in allowing higher capacity fast drives. I would also like to see the option, even if in the premium version, to tier more than two drives. Imagine Having a cold storage like spinning disk with a 6-10TB capacity, a 1TB SSD, and then an ultra-fast NVMe or Optane drive, all with RAMCache on top!

As it sits though, I would recommend Ryzen owners to at least check it out for RAM Cache and if your setup allows it you could toss in a small $50 drive to pair with a high capacity drive as well.

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