STOREMI OR PRIMOCACHE

[Gitesh]

Hello friends,i have x470 motherboard with 250gb ssd for os and imp applications and 2tb stream+video files i have spare 250gb ssd from my laptop ssd swap(upgrade to 500gb) i want fast speed for my hdd but with reliably that if something goes wrong (power failure,ram oc around +200Mhz....did i mention Windows update?) i want my atlest hdd safe(250gd which was cache on ssd i can handle it) is primocache or storemi is preferable there are really low information out their with many intel fanboy who only prefer optane(not blaming just irritated)

PLEASE HELP!!!!!

Edited January 24, 2019 by Gitesh

[Endeavor01]

9 minutes ago, Gitesh said:

Hello friends,i have x470 motherboard with 250gb ssd for os and imp applications and 2tb stream+video files i have spare 250gb ssd from my laptop ssd swap(upgrade to 500gb) i want fast speed for my hdd but with reliably that if something goes wrong (power failure,ram oc around +200Mhz....did i mention Windows update?) i want my atlest hdd safe(250gd which was cache on ssd i can handle it) is primocache or storemi is preferable there are really low information out their with many intel fanboy who only prefer optane(not blaming just irritated)

PLEASE HELP!!!!!

Speed rarely coexists with reliability. However,

If your main concern is power failures, you've already taken the SSD route which will greatly improve your odds of your windows install surviving a random power outage, as it's much easier and faster for the registry to write to the hive.

Here's a video by Tech Yes City on StoreMI, and here's an overview of PrimoCache and how it works.

I believe both technologies simply copy over frequently used data as opposed to moving it, so if you're worried about data fragmentation it shouldn't be an issue.

[porina]

6 minutes ago, Endeavor01 said:

I believe both technologies simply copy over frequently used data as opposed to moving it, so if you're worried about data fragmentation it shouldn't be an issue.

To my understanding StoreMI does move data between slow and fast devices. You get to keep the combined capacity of the devices involved. If either device fails, you can't easily recover data from the other device.

A good write up at: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12625/amd-second-generation-ryzen-7-2700x-2700-ryzen-5-2600x-2600/7

 

PrimoCache does sound like a cacheing structure, with frequently accessed data being copied and to the faster tier for access. I believe it has optional write caching. As long as that is off, I think it is no worse than running a HD by itself. With write cache enabled, there is some risk if the SSD were to fail then data would not make it to HD and be lost, but otherwise the HD is still usable.

[Endeavor01]

9 minutes ago, porina said:

To my understanding StoreMI does move data between slow and fast devices. You get to keep the combined capacity of the devices involved. If either device fails, you can't easily recover data from the other device.

A good write up at: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12625/amd-second-generation-ryzen-7-2700x-2700-ryzen-5-2600x-2600/7

Well put, thank you for clearing that up.

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PrimoCache does sound like a cacheing structure, with frequently accessed data being copied and to the faster tier for access. I believe it has optional write caching. As long as that is off, I think it is no worse than running a HD by itself. With write cache enabled, there is some risk if the SSD were to fail then data would not make it to HD and be lost, but otherwise the HD is still usable.

that would mean StoreMI would require re-partitioning while PrimoCache would work with his existing situation. PrimoCache would also have the benefit of in the case of a drive failure, the original data (even if not up to date) would still remain on the HDD.

My vote is either Primocache or just install your frequently played games/accessed files on the 250GB SSD. I don't see the benefit of moving video files since once they're playing as long as the HDD feeds 24 frames a second you should have no problem.

[porina]

6 minutes ago, Endeavor01 said:

that would mean StoreMI would require re-partitioning

I don't have 1st hand experience in how it works, but in the previously linked article was an AMD slide that said "can be installed or reversed at any time". I don't know how it does that though, probably involving converting formats and moving data around.