Microsoft NTFS by Tuxera
Get fast, fail-safe
embedded NTFS support
Microsoft NTFS by Tuxera is a commercial-grade file system implementation that brings built-in, high-performance support for Windows® NTFS™-formatted USB, SD™, HDD, and SSD storage media to any device. Our proprietary NTFS embedded driver powers over a billion devices worldwide and is compatible with all the major operating systems.
Why choose Microsoft NTFS by Tuxera
Incredibly smooth user experience
Microsoft NTFS by Tuxera features hardware acceleration, patented enhancements, and advanced optimizations to ensure maximum I/O throughput and high IOPS. Our commercial-grade file system implementation is 6X faster than open-source alternatives, ensuring an unmatched device responsiveness.
Outstanding reliability
We make sure that your videos, pictures, and other files are saved and that no data is corrupted if storage is suddenly removed, or power or battery is disconnected. Metadata, device integrity, and volume consistency is ensured in any of these events – making Microsoft NTFS by Tuxera a truly fail-safe solution.
Full interoperability
Tuxera's embedded software ensures your customers can use their portable, external storage media interchangeably with your device and others, no matter the operating system. Our NTFS solution is precision-tuned for the best performance on any platform, whether it’s Android™, Linux®, Tizen®, QNX®, Nucleus®, Windows® CE Embedded, or other proprietary RTOS deployments.
All Tuxera file system
implementations feature
Our cloud-based autobuild system ensures up-to-date, immediate software integration and delivery. Plus, our engineers are on call to help you through every stage of your product’s lifetime, including full integration support.
Our full implementation package comes with a built-to-spec, ready-to-run file system driver, all the file system and benchmarking tools you need, intensive device testing, our patented fail-safe technology, and full-service support.
Errors can cause data loss – or worse – damage device hardware. Tuxera file systems go beyond other alternatives to bring you volume check and repair tools to ensure file system consistency, fix corrupted volumes, and recover lost files.
All the software we build goes through extensive testing. We have our own state-of-the-art device testing lab where we test for interoperability, reliability, functionality, and performance.
Everything’s stored safe and sound. With Tuxera’s proprietary fail-safety technology your system can recover from unexpected shutdown, power loss, or storage removal. We can optimize the level of robustness and performance according to your specific use case.
What our customers say about us
At Orca, we use cloud disk snapshots and provide forensic-level visibility inside of every virtual machine. Crawling and storage optimizations available in Microsoft NTFS by Tuxera provide the speed we need to deliver customers a complete view of their multi-cloud estate in minutes. Tuxera’s expertise in high-performing, fail-safe file systems and enterprise-grade storage software help us achieve a competitive edge in the market.Gil Geron co-founder and chief product officer at Orca Security
Tuxera’s solution opened the bottleneck of storing multi streams of high-definition contents reliably to external affordable storages without reformatting and other interruptions. With Tuxera inside, users will be able to attach their existing USB hard drives and flash memories to Humax set-top boxes to play or record their favorite programs without a fuss. This all greatly enhances the user experience.Sungtae Kim, VP SW Engineering/STB SW Div./R&D Dept. at Humax
Tuxera file system solutions allow Xiaomi Box users to download, stream, record and play-back the content with no limits in recording size or length. To ensure ultimate user experience, it is invaluable that our product is fail-safe and offers plug-and-play interoperability with all kind of external storages from the cheapest memory sticks to the latest USB hard drives.Wang Chuan, Xiaomi co-founder
We understand performance is paramount for NAS customers, and we believe features such as file system optimizations – combined with both companies’ reputations for quality and support – place Marvell and Tuxera well ahead of the competition.Paul Valentine, vice president of marketing for the Enterprise Business Unit at Marvell Semiconductor, Inc
We selected Tuxera because their file system technology allows us to achieve significantly faster results than before acceleration. With the help of Tuxera, NETGEAR’s ReadyNAS Duo v2 and NV+ v2 products feature significantly faster back-up times and seamless user experience with portable storages.Matt Pahnke, Sr Product Marketing Manager at NETGEAR
Technical data and resources
Support for all NTFS versions
Version 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 3.0 and 3.1, including XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.0, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10
Support for all storage types
eMMC, eSD, SD card, CF Card, UFS, memory stick, SSD, HDD via USB, SATA, eSATA, FireWire, MMC, and more
Support for all types of Microsoft Dynamic Volumes
Simple, spanned, stripped, mirrored, RAID-5
POSIX conformance and Windows filename compatibility
Microsoft NTFS by Tuxera supports UTF-8 file names, 32-bit Unicode/UTF-16 encoding, and DOS, Win32, and POSIX filename namespaces
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When to use Microsoft NTFS by Tuxera
The leading auto makers, Tier-1s, OEMs, and ODMs choose Microsoft NTFS by Tuxera. With low CPU use and memory footprint, Microsoft NTFS by Tuxera is suitable for embedded devices with limited memory and computing power that require high-speed data transfers.
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