Amd storemi: what is this program and what is it for?

In this short article we are going to briefly discuss the benefits of an application that "organizes" your hard drives and is available for AMD motherboards. In fact, you may already have it pre-installed, depending on your board, and it's called the AMD StoreMI.

Either you want to download the program or you already have it pre-installed or you probably want to know more about it. 'What is this program for or what benefits me?' These are questions that you may have asked yourself.

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What is AMD StoreMI ?

It also has another rather significant handicap, since we can only use it on AMD X399 or 400 or 500 series motherboards. Of course, it is quite a negative point, but we cannot do much more about it. We would appreciate it if it were an application open to any team on the market, but perhaps it needs some code that only new AMD boards mount.

For serving us?

We have already made you a small spoiler in the previous section, but it is that the purpose of this program is rather simple.

The most interesting point is that now we will have a single hard disk where we can install things and work. This will greatly benefit us because it will be AMD StoreMI that organizes all the data and we can forget which program is more important for the SSD .

Also, we have another very characteristic function which is to use part of the RAM as a pseudo-cache.

Just as SSDs are considerably faster than HDDs , RAM is considerably faster than SSDs . Well, with AMD StoreMI we have the possibility of allocating certain RAM memory to work as auxiliary memory.

If you have like 16GB of RAM , you may not be using it to its fullest, so sacrificing a few megabytes or gigabytes shouldn't be a big deal. This way you can seriously speed up the performance of some of your most important programs.

Here we leave you a fairly explanatory video on the operation of the program:

Finally, we have to warn you a little about its consequences and dangers.

In case you did not know, SSDs have a maximum quota of rewrites, that is, during its life we ​​can only write X amount of data. If we exceed that amount (rewriting, deleting, adding new data…) the disk will eventually stop working.

Since AMD StoreMI moves programs from one disk to another, it is continually overwriting data. So it is technically shortening the life of the SSD .

However, the life expectancy of a memory is usually quite generous. For a 128 GB disk we can perhaps write 75 TB before rendering it useless, so the danger “is far” .

A brief look at AMD StoreMI

From various options of the application we can mix SSD (Fast) and HHD (Slow) disks. As you will see in the image, one is the "destination" disk, so both will be merged into one, in this case, disk F:

The methodology to carry out this action is not very complicated and we can easily reach quick guidelines for use.

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Then, here below we can see the result after mixing two discs (different from the previous ones). Here we have a 128 GB SSD along with a 1 TB HDD .

On the other hand, we also have the options to access RAM as if it were an auxiliary cache. The only option that allows us to base is to allocate 2 GB of RAM .

We recommend doing this if your team is 16 GB or more and you don't use very heavy editing or similar programs or if you have 8 GB , but you don't put a lot of workload on your team. Otherwise, depriving you of RAM could be bad enough for overall performance.

To finish, we leave you a small quick guide to configuring the disks. It is taken from the same user guide of the application and is quite visual, despite having quite a few steps.

Final words on AMD StoreMI

As we are seeing, users often prefer to have a clear and simple experience rather than incomparable performance. It is something similar to what happens between android and iOS, right? Despite the fact that android can be like iOS and more, the ease that Apple offers you by giving you an elegant, beautiful and easy to use Operating System is something that in android does not come from the factory.

For this reason, although we slightly reduce the life of SSDs, we believe that the program is worth using or at least trying it out. If you have a motherboard above the X399 or the 400 or 500 series it should be a must. In fact, it is possible that you already have it pre-installed at the factory, so you only have to configure it.

It is an interesting method that can save us more than a headache. Although being frank, rather than going crazy organizing programs, we would surely leave them as they are regardless of what album they were on.

Remember to play it safe and make a backup, because you do not know when a deadly bug could arise for your team.

What do you think about AMD StoreMI ? Would you sacrifice some of the lifespan of your disks to self-manage? Share your thoughts below!