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A fail-safe exFAT driver for embedded systems, USB drives, and SD™ memory cards
Microsoft exFAT by Tuxera
Product overview
Our commercial-grade exFAT solution breaks through traditional storage limits while keeping your data secure. When power cuts happen, your files stay safe. Your flash memory lasts longer, and everything works across major operating systems and devices. That’s why billions of devices worldwide rely on our Microsoft-licensed solution. And, if you need to work with SD cards larger than 2TB, we’re the only provider who can help.
For teams evaluating embedded flash management software, Microsoft exFAT by Tuxera gives developers a tested exFAT implementation that helps protect files, reduce fragmentation, and support reliable removable flash storage across device lifecycles.
Our patented Smart Allocator writes your data in an organized pattern instead of scattering it across your storage. This means less fragmentation and a longer lifespan for your inherently short-lived NAND flash. You’ll get maximum throughput with reduced latency, keeping your systems running smoothly when it matters most.
Our implementation delivers broad interoperability with operating systems like Windows, Linux, Android, and macOS. Freely exchange files between platforms without conversion or reformatting issues.
Microsoft exFAT by Tuxera is designed to maintain volume consistency when power is interrupted or removable media is disconnected unexpectedly. This helps reduce the risk of file system corruption, lost data, and recovery effort in embedded devices.
Tuxera Persistence Manager™ lets you control exactly when and how data is committed to storage. It reduces latency and establishes max throughput. Configure the manager based on time intervals or file size to optimize power consumption and hardware costs. This works perfectly for dashcams and other recording devices that need reliable, fail-safe performance.
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Learn moreFrequently asked Questions
Here are answers to what customers typically ask about Microsoft exFAT by Tuxera. Just reach out if your question isn’t listed here.
Our solution continuously maintains file system integrity in the background rather than relying on journaling. This means if power is lost, your system doesn’t need to spend time recovering from a journal before booting. Our linear writing pattern ensures metadata remains available and your system is always in a correct state.
Pricing varies based on your specific requirements, deployment scale, and support needs. Contact our team for a customized quote that fits your project.
Our implementation offers significantly better power fail-safety, optimized data allocation, and licensed Microsoft patent compliance. Open-source solutions typically rely on added check and repair tools or use journaling, which requires recovery time after failures and can lead to fragmented data that slows performance over time. Our Smart Allocator ensures consistent performance and extends flash memory life, while our background maintenance eliminates recovery delays after power interruptions.
Microsoft exFAT by Tuxera is a commercial, Microsoft-licensed exFAT file system driver for embedded systems, USB drives, SD memory cards, and removable flash storage. It gives device manufacturers fail-safe storage behavior with full commercial support.
exFAT supports much larger files and higher-capacity media than FAT32, which makes it suitable for modern embedded systems handling video, logs, firmware updates, diagnostics, and application data on removable storage.
Yes. Tuxera is part of the Microsoft exFAT licensing program, so our implementation comes already covered by a full Microsoft exFAT patent license.
Smart Allocator is Tuxera’s patented allocation method. It writes data in an organized pattern to reduce fragmentation, support higher throughput, and extend the usable life of NAND flash.
Tuxera Persistence Manager gives developers control over when and how data is committed to storage. It can be configured by time interval or file size, helping balance latency, throughput, power consumption, and hardware cost.
Yes. Microsoft exFAT by Tuxera is built for embedded systems and resource-constrained environments, operating on systems with as little as 16 KB of RAM while balancing performance, power, and hardware cost.
Yes. The driver supports formatting high-capacity SDUC cards, well beyond the 2TB range, alongside SD, SDHC, SDXC, and microSD variants.
Standardized with the Microsoft exFAT file system specification and conforms to SD File System Specification developed by the SD Association (SDA).
Advanced file system check and repair tools maintain file system consistency, fix corrupted volumes, and recover lost files. Tuxera Persistence Manager™ add-on provides flexible, controlled data flushing for improved reliability.
Supported architectures: ARM, ARM64, Intel x86/x86_64 or compatible, MIPS, MIPS64, PowerPC, SH4 – virtually any 32-bit or 64-bit platform.
Memory requirements: Operates on systems with as low as 16 KB of RAM.
Android, Linux, RTOSes such as QNX and ThreadX. Available for a wide range of RTOS environments. Specifications may vary depending on OSes.
Android, Linux, QNX, FreeRTOS, SafeRTOS, Integrity, ThreadX
Available on a wide range of RTOS environments. Features and/or
specifications may vary depending on the operating system
ARM, ARM64, Intel x86/x86_64 or compatible, MIPS, MIPS64,
PowerPC, SH4, and more
• Conforms to all Microsoft exFAT versions including XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 (Microsoft Interop Vendor Alliance), and Windows 11
• Conforms to SD Association (SDA) specifications
• Support for all flash-based storage types such as SD cards, eSD, CF cards, SSD, UFS, USB-connected storages, SATA, eSATA, FireWire, and eMMC
• Support for APM, GPT, and MBR partition schemes
• Maximum volume size: 128 PiB
• Minimum cluster size: 512 bytes
• Maximum cluster size: 32 MiB
• Maximum file size: 128 PiB*
• Maximum number of entries per directory: 2,796,202
• Maximum filename length: up to 255 characters
• Supported sector sizes: 512, 1024, 2048, and 4096 bytes
The operating system and hardware platform may place additional limits
on maximum file size. E.g., Linux on 32-bit platforms limits the maximum
file size to 8 TiB with 4 KiB page size, and 128 TiB with 64 KiB page size
• 1 MiB of RAM
• Processor: 25 MHz
• Read-write: 70-90 KiB
• Read-only: 40-60 KiB
• CPU usage: 0-10%
Volume consistency ensured if storage is removed, or power or
battery is disconnected
Tuxera maintains POSIX File System Test Suite. The following
system calls are tested:
• chmod: changes permission
• chown: changes ownership
• mkdir: creates directories
• open: opens a file
• rename: changes file name
• rmdir: removes directories
• truncate: decreases/increases file size
• unlink: removes files
Microsoft exFAT by Tuxera uses free space bitmaps to reduce
fragmentation and to improve space allocation when files are
deleted
• Unicode Character Set (UTF-16). Exceptions: U+0000 (NUL)
through U+001F (US), / (slash), \ (backslash), : (colon),
*(asterisk), ? (question mark), “ (quote), < (less than), > (greater
than), and | (pipe)
• Unicode fulfills the need to support character differences in
national and regional languages (Japanese, Korean, Chinese,
Western, etc.).
OEM Parameters Sector for device-dependent parameters
Support for Universal Coordinated Time (UTC) timestamps
• Active superblock (FAT), file, directory, attribute and data caching. Advanced algorithms and data structures ensure maximum I/O throughput, low CPU usage for small and large files, and achieve high IOPS for file operations. Tunable settings. Low power use optimized for increased battery life.
• Free Area Management: Allocation Bitmap
• Cluster Chain Management:
• FAT Chain
• Directory Entry
• FAT + Continuous Information
• Name Search: Comparison of Name
• When saving files to SD, SDHC, SDXC, or SDUC cards, full
speed can be achieved
• Zero-copy support (direct I/O)
• Low data fragmentation
Rigorous quality assurance, wide deployment, and fault-tolerant
design guarantee outstanding file system robustness
Provides maintenance services so exFAT development can be
safely customized using:
• Product answers to inquiries
• Minor version product available
Proprietary, commercial
Note! Tuxera licenses the exFAT software implementation. We’re also a
part of the Microsoft exFAT licensing program. With our special
arrangement with Microsoft, you can purchase our proprietary exFAT file
system implementation, already covered by a full Microsoft exFAT
patent license.
• mkexfat: formats volumes
• exfatck: checks and repairs volumes
• exfatlabel: shows/sets volume label
• exfatsvn: displays/changes the volume serial number on an
exFAT file system
• exfatdebug: collects debug images
Recovery in the event of power failure or hot-unplug.
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