Microsoft detailed its long awaited and arguably well overdue NTFS replacement yesterday, the Resilient File System (ReFS), on the Building Windows 8 blog. It marks the first time the Redmond-based ...

Microsoft has given its first detailed description of ReFS, the new file system that will gradually succeed the now-venerable NTFS in Windows systems. The Resilient File System (ReFS) will make its ...

Microsoft’s new Windows 11 Insider build now gives gurus a choice during installation: you can set up your system on either NTFS or the new ReFS file system. ReFS is built to handle massive storage, ...

What just happened? The Windows 11 2024 Update is here, bringing with it a significant boost to file transfer speeds thanks to a technology from the server realm – Resilient File System with its Block ...

On Windows Server 2016 or 2019, how long has "chkdsk /r" taken on large volumes (>2 TB)? I'm thinking through the pros and cons between using NTFS on file servers and replicating the data using DFS, ...

Microsoft has unveiled a “state of the art” file system for the next 10 years that builds on NTFS. Named Resilient File System (ReFS), Microsoft’s latest baby will be delivered with Windows 8 Server ...

Microsoft is beginning to add support for Resilient File System on Windows 11. Introduced back in 2011-12, the support for the next-gen file system has so far been limited to Windows Server only. Fast ...

There has been talk about a new file system in the upcoming Windows client and server thanks to details that came out at BUILD, but up to now, Microsoft has been quiet. That ended today with a blog ...

Microsoft recently announce that with the arrival of Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, the OS will lose file and disk creation capabilities using the Resilient File System (ReFS). "[ReFS] creation ...

Microsoft has revealed that it will make the move from NTFS to ReFS (Resilient File System) for Windows 8, but only on the server version. Lance Whitney Contributing Writer Lance Whitney is a ...

The upcoming release of Windows Server 8 will feature an entirely new file system, called ReFS, that addresses many of the shortcomings of the aging NTFS (New Technology File System) now used across ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. We’ve heard about Microsoft’s Windows 8 Resilient File System (ReFS) ...