Paragon Software: ReFS for Windows

Paragon Software Group Corp.(PSG) releases ReFS for Windows, a solution that enables access to ReFS-formatted data across all Windows OSs.

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ReFS for Windows can be used as a standalone tool or integrated with complex solutions. The software is targeted at forensics, software houses, system integrators, and system administrators working with ReFS-formatted data in complex Windows-based environments. Regardless of OS version, it guarantees high performance, stability, and compatibility with no loss of data.

Introduced by Microsoft with Windows Server 2012 (and later adapted for other editions), the ReFS file system has many advantages over NTFS. However, ReFS has also caused incompatibility issues with different OS versions, triggering some features to be incompatible with certain OS feature sets. For example, forensic experts and IT pros are often faced with incompatibility issues when mounting ReFS-formatted storage devices under Windows. With version 2.0 and later, certain ReFS installations lack support on some Windows versions. ReFS for Windows by Paragon Software resolves incompatibility issues by ensuring ReFS support from Windows Server 2012 to the latest versions.

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Key ReFS benefits that company’s unlocks for Windows-based infrastructures:

• Resiliency to data corruption, built-in algorithm to ensure maximum volume availability;

• Data and metadata integrity;

• Support for large volumes up to one yobibyte (i.e., 1.2 trillion terabytes);

• Improved data striping performance, redundancy for fault tolerance;

• Disk scrubbing to ensure protection against silent data corruption;

• Shared reserve storage pools for additional fault tolerance, balanced workloads.

Other file system drivers by the company for Android, macOS, Linux, and Windows are available for licensing to enterprises or OEMs as components to the Paragon Storage SDK.

A 30-day trial version of ReFS for Windows is available upon request.