AMD Ryzen now able to use Optane (as automated tiered storage) via Fuzedrive software

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http://www.enmotus.com/AMD

http://www.enmotus.com/products

http://www.enmotus.com/amdfaq

What is FuzeDrive for AMD Ryzen?
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FuzeDrive for AMD is Real-time Tiering software with Machine Intelligence. It blends 2 different classes of storage media (fast and capacity) into a single volume that appears to the operating system as the C: drive. Active data is automatically moved to your fast storage media and stored there and your inactive data is kept on the capacity storage. Your storage activity is dynamically monitored and learns how you use your system. The result is you get the performance benefits of your fast storage and the combined capacity of both the fast and capacity drives. Since it is fully automated, you do not need to worry about manually moving data between 2 drives.
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How is it different from cache?
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FuzeDrive uses your SSD as the primary drive while Cache uses your SSD to accelerate a slow HDD. FuzeDrive uses your SSD (fast drive) as primary storage, so it reads and writes directly to the SSD. Active data remains there permanently until something more active is promoted to the fast tier. The AMD version of FuzeDrive supports up to 128GB SSDs, so it is more than adequate for storing all your active data. Data that is not active, is moved to the capacity storage (usually HDD) only if more space for active storage is needed. Cache temporarily moves active data into the SSD, but the data in the cache is flushed on a regular basis. Due to architecture constrictions, caches tend to be limited in how large they can be, and the capacity of the cache is not added to the capacity of the volume.
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IMO this could be really good for new PC users providing it is reliable.

EDIT (May 17, 2018): A version of this software called StoreMI (with 256GB fast tier) is available to AMD 400 series chipset users at no cost.
 
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Added link to FAQ in the opening post.

Also supports FuzeRAM:

FuzeRAM is an optional RAM Cache that uses 2GB of your systems DRAM as an additional caching layer on top of your FuzeDrive. It is intended for accelerating read intensive applications. FuzeRAM requires a minimum of 6GB of system DRAM. Results are highly dependent on your application and operating environment and you are encouraged to experiment by turning it on or off to see if it helps your particular environment. To see the immediate effect, you can also try benchmark applications such as CrystalMark, which can show the benefit with and without the RAM cache turned on or off. Note, you can freely turn the RAM cache on and off without rebooting your system.
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Glad to see there is now a second option called FuzeDrive Plus that allows up to a 1TB SSD to be used for fast tier.
 
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A version of the Enmotus Fuzedrive software called StoreMI is available for AMD 400 series chipsets.

Fast tier is 256GB and there is no cost or license key needed for it. (Software detects the AMD 400 series chipset at boot).

P.S. As I mentioned here I only wish that Enmotus allowed the capability to pin the page file. This mainly for Optane. but I also believe it would help NAND as well
 
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