StoreMI, Load time accaleration on Ryzen 2### series tested.

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I suspect this is probably something very few know about, even those who own Ryzen 2### with 400 series Chipsets.

StoreMI, new with Ryzen 2 / 400 series Chipsets turns your slow mechanical HDD into SSD level performance by meshing your mass storage mechanical drive together with your SSD by intelligently moving the critical parts of the application that take a long time to load to the faster SSD.
You can have, or in fact the best way to do this is to have your OS installed on your mass storage mechanical drive.
StoreMI will treat the Mechanical drive and the SSD as one drive and automatically move the files around for the best possible performance.

Normally this is something that i would overlook, i would pigeon hole it as bloatware. But this adds actual value, its actually useful, and it works really well not just for convenience and performance but you also don't have to chose between which games to put on the fast drive and which on the slow drive, this just puts it all on this one virtual mass storage fast drive.

 

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https://youtu.be/wbl2dYgjMQ4

Level1tech have a video that goes into a little more detail I think he used intel optane to test it too

Thanks, added to OP

 

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Clever piece of technology that. Probably not for me as I'd rather just run my games from an SSD. I always keep my number of installed games down anyway so space is generally not an issue.

But none the less it's definitely a useful piece of software.

Although he said that StoreMI makes the 2700x more compelling over the 8700k I thought Intel had their own version of this software? Optane or something?

That Optian thing is a combination of Intel software and Intel's Optain drives, only its nothing like as good, you can use this with Optain drives, to Quote Windle "..........If you have an Optain Drive i think you should totally do that, i think you might be disturbed, and i do have to giggle a little bit, that AMD nailed the experience here with Optain... its a good experience and they did it better than the people who came up with Optain."

https://youtu.be/wbl2dYgjMQ4?t=12m57s

The thing is this works with any drive, you don't need an "AMD branded drive"

 

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Surely this needs an AMD Ryzen 400 series chipset, whereas an Intel Optane drive will work with any chipset, so just as limiting but in a different way.

Its good that they give it away for free with the 400 series chipsets though and it does seem to work quite well in those videos.

Yeah, fair enough