Paragon Software has developed exFAT implementations for various platforms since 2011, under an agreement with Microsoft. These exFAT implementations are based on Paragon’s experience in hard disk management, cross-platform file systems, and partitioning technologies, which began in 1997 by implementing NTFS for Microsoft DOS.
We have successfully completed hundreds of exFAT projects for OEM manufacturers who ship tens of millions of devices that rely on Paragon’s implementation of exFAT for their consumer and business end user devices.
One of the most important values we provide to our exFAT customers is confidence. Confidence in performance, stability, test-coverage, support and having a partner who knows how to resolve any issue that might occur during a product lifecycle, and address changes to hardware, OS Kernel, components, etc.
Paragon has long standing partnerships with the largest OEMs in the world. We are Microsoft’s preferred exFAT provider of stable, robust solutions for exFAT implementation under various operating systems and kernels, based upon proprietary Paragon code – and includes the Microsoft exFAT technology license required for OEM distribution.
Setting up the exFAT Evaluation
- Sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA).
- Identify your OS and platform configuration for the exFAT implementation, including your OS kernel version.
- We will advise what development files you will need to provide so our team can prepare and deliver an exFAT build to you for evaluation on your platform.
- Run your own tests or use our included benchmark utility on your real-world configuration and usage scenario. Our team will be available to provide assistance throughout your evaluation.
Our benefits
Paragon’s test cycle includes hundreds of tests and scenarios to ensure that changes to code or to the OS itself will not lead to problems in real life. These tests took almost two decades to develop and are based upon real-life scenarios from Paragon’s customers – some of the largest OEMs in the world.
Our partner support team can perform hardware tests on your platform samples and provide driver tuning and optimization services. For example, optimizing exFAT-formatted SDXC memory card usage in a cellphone versus heavily used storage media in NAS will require different tuning processes to optimize performance and memory usage while minimizing CPU allocation and battery load.
SAMBA performance is also important in many cases – especially network and network storage devices. We provide recommendations on how to tune SAMBA for specific use cases to achieve optimal performance.
NFS compliance tests.
UML tuning and optimization for the best performance.
Included with our exFAT implementation are related utilities to check, fix, format and dump exFAT media for various purposes.
In addition to generic file system tests, we also check and ensure exFAT implementations and system compliance with the OEM’s specific requirements (e.g. heavy load usage).
For certain OEMs with frequent platform modifications such as smartphones, Paragon offers an auto-build system so they can quickly prepare updated builds of their existing exFAT implementation to accommodate changes to hardware, OS Kernel version, new components, etc.
We provide full technical support and optimization services to ensure the best performance of the exFAT implementations for an OEM’s product – fastest read/write speed, and lowest CPU, memory and battery usage.
Paragon exFAT code is proprietary and does not require disclosure, thus eliminating the need for our OEM partners to disclose any of their associated technologies. We ensure any interaction of our drivers with OS native opensource technologies complies with GPL standards. Additional information available upon request.
Contact us
Feel free to contact us with any questions you may have. We value your time and your interest in our products and services, and we will do our best to provide you with prompt and knowledgeable response.
Call us at +49-761-59018-201 or write to oem@paragon-software.com.
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