Not quite sure about that. I have a 8GB Sandisk Cruzer Pop UFD which can be formatted as ReFS; however a larger 16GB Silicon Power USB3.0 can not. Maybe it's vendor dependent?
I am amazed by the amount of storage and the specs of your rig. Really cool set up you have there bro! This is exactly the reason I formatted all my data drives in ReFS in Windows 10 v1703 Creators Update. The previous Windows 10 version can not format drives in ReFS unless a registry hack is applied; in v1703 it appears Microsoft finally feels confident enough to make this feature readily available. ReFS was firstly introduced in Server 2012 back in 2012, by now it should be mature enough.
Thanks man, I like to have everything locally on my laptop and not rely on external storage, as you can see the large spanned drive is for my videos library I wish we can use ReFS for the OS drive though
No need to check disk error with ReFS. It's a thing of the NTFS system. It's great that Microsoft keep making under-the-hood improvements to the usability of Windows 10, especially the OS security and data integrity. For me, ReFS appears to be the best feature in Creators Update. The sandbox improvement in Edge is also mentioned somewhere. Certainly worth upgrading to CU.
Stop it. This is not possible to not have this sort of tools for FS. Also last time (in 2014/2015) when i was testing ReFS - it was checked by chkdsk just fine.
As soon as ReFS supports booting, this will be very much welcomed! Bit rot sucks, and it happens more often than people think, but, most of the time they don't notice it.
Maybe third party programs would work with ReFS. Last time I tried it in Server 2012 R2 it was a total disaster... half the things I needed to use choked to death with ReFS
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ReFS is currently a file system for data storage drives, I am not sure what third party programs won't support this file system? But I think all Windows Server oriented programs should work fine, as ReFS was originally designed for Server OS.
For what I payed for Macrium Reflect, NTFS is where I stay Maybe you need to uninstall since it was installed on NTFS, then reinstall on ReFS