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 officials are finally sharing publicly details about "Protogon," the new file system that the company is developing as part of Windows 8. Officially named ReFS -- for Resilient File System - ...

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) ...

See how a Dev Drive formatted with ReFS can affect your gaming on Windows 11, from loading times to stability and real-world performance.

Microsoft quietly announced late last week that some editions of Windows 10 will lose file and disk creation capabilities using the Resilient File System (ReFS). "[ReFS] creation ability will be ...

Firstly, to be clear, ReFS, which stands for 'Resilient File System' will only be available on Windows Server 8, however, will be accessible from clients supporting NTFS, as it supports the same APIs.

What's not so clear is why Microsoft's brand-new ReFS file system is also excluded. ReFS does not support every NTFS feature, and it's possible that OneDrive uses one of the features missing from ReFS ...

OneDrive users around the world have been upset to discover that with its latest update, Microsoft's cloud file syncing and storage system no longer works with anything other than disks formatted with ...