It is designed to prioritize the data Availability. and if corruption occurs the online salvage process localized requiring no volume downtime to the area where a corruption occurred. ReFS stay online when any corruption occurred. It also provides Integration and stores data to avoid data loss. All the metadata of file system remains protected. If any corruption is detected, ReFS will correct it automatically and recover your data quickly without any loss. ReFS provide Scalability that it can scale any data size whether it is new or old. App Compatibility feature of ReFS supports NTFS features and Win32 APIs and that are highly adopted. Proactive Error Identification feature of ReFS identifies and detects the error rapidly by a scanner call “Scrubber”. After finding any error or corruption, this feature of ReFS will recover from the corruption as soon as possible. You can format your drive with ReFS to have more features and security of your data. Windows 10 version 1703 comes with ReFS 3.2 version, but for compatibility reasons with NTFS you can still format your drives with ReFS version 1.2.
Format drive with ReFS
Following steps will guide you to format your drive with ReFS. ReFS supports large volume up to 1 yobibyte or 1.2 trillion terabytes. And provides integrity for data and metadata. Have you ever tried ReFS?
