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How do I disable AMD StoreMI?

Nam Hoang
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IMPORTANT: The following procedures are highly technical and may cause damage to your computer, operating system or loss of data. Only proceed if you are comfortable with this and accept the consequences. If you don't feel comfortable, consult a CyberPowerPC support specialist about options for in-house repair or consult with a local computer technician.

 

Backing up files before proceeding

Backing up your files is very important, and the best way to prevent data loss.

IMPORTANT: The following steps may completely erase all data from the drives. Ensure you have backed up all important data before using the following commands. You should ALWAYS back up your data before performing a major change such as this. Backing up your system is fairly simple and easy to do, just follow these instructions on the article Backup and Restore in Windows 10 then follow the onscreen prompts to proceed. 

 

The StoreMI utility may be used to remove all acceleration using the “Remove StoreMI” option
and return the system to utilize just the single HDD (or slow tier device) as a single disk drive.

This will free up any existing SSD to be used for other purposes and also support replacing the SSD with a different one if necessary. This action will also remove the RAM cache.

Note: this does not uninstall the software. It simply detaches the fast tier so a new fast tier device
may be attached.


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IMPORTANT: The system will reboot, so save any important work. Also, any carve out SSD drive created using excess capacity over the license limit will be deleted whenever a StoreMI is removed.

For this reason, ensure that any important data stored on the temporary drive is backed up before
performing the above operation.

 

When the “Remove StoreMI Drive” operation is selected, all data on the StoreMI Drive is moved to the slower media. The Enmotus configuration utility will attempt the shrink the last partition on the StoreMI Drive. If the shrink operation is not successful, user interaction may be needed to migrate data to a different drive in the system.

2GB of metadata on the StoreMI Drive is also retained during this operation.

If manually shrinking or moving partitions before running “Remove StoreMI Drive”, please shrink partitions and move partitions so that the fast media capacity plus 2GB is unallocated.

When the manual shrink is completed, Windows Disk Management Tool will show the right section of the StoreMI Drive as “unallocated “.

The Remove operation works for configurations where there are multiple partitions on a StoreMI Drive.  When the capacity of the fast media plus 2GB is free the “Remove StoreMI Drive” operation will proceed smoothly.

For this and more detailed instructions on how to configure and manage AMD StoreMI, consult the AMD StoreMI User Guide.

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