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UFS Explorer: technical specifications

Supported disks

Any physical storage devices (SATA/PATA/SCSI/USB/FireWire), visible from Windows volume manager;
CD/DVD drives (not detected by default for perforance reasons);
Floppy and any Floppy-like drives (not detected by default for perforance reasons);
VMWare virtual disks (.vmdk files);
MS Virtual PC virtual disks (.vhd files);
Parallels Workstation virtual disks (.hdd files);
RAW disk and partition image files;
UFS Explorer compressed disk image files (.uci files);
Network disks (Business Network only; agent access).

Supported partitioning styles

Basic DOS-style (Master Boot Record and Primary/Secondary DOS-style partitions);
Windows NT dynamic disks (NT LDM);
FreeBSD/OpenBSD slices;
SUN Solaris slices;
GUID-based partition tables (GPT);
MacOS-style partition maps (so-called APM or 'Apple Partition Map');
Novel Netware partitions;
Basic support of Linux LVM partitions.

Supported file systems

Windows NT NTFS, including NTFS5.
DOS/Windows FAT, including FAT12, FAT16, FAT32 and Transact FAT (used in PocketPC devices for main storage);
Linux Ext2/Ext3 file systems;
Linux ReiserFS file system;
SGI XFS file system (FalconStor and GuardianOS XFS customizations are supported);
UFS and UFS2 file systems of BSD, Unix, Solaris (Sparc and x86), MacOS (Power and x86): both big- and little-endian;
Adaptec SnapOS custom UFS;
Old MacOS HFS file system;
MacOS HFS+ and HFSx file systems.
CD/DVD UDF and ISO9660 file systems, including Joliet extension;
Novell Netware NWFS file system.

Virtual RAID reconstruction (Professional Recovery edition)

Virtual reconstruction of RAID0 with sector-level striping;
Virtual reconstruction of RAID3, RAID4, RAID7 with byte-level striping;
Virtual reconstruction of even degraded RAID5 and RAID6 (including specific RAID6 realization in Areca RAID controllers) with sector-level striping and all most used parity algorithms;
Support of Span (JBOD) configurations;
Support of RAID on disks and disk partitions;
Support of nested RAID (RAID-on-RAID) of any level;
Any custom RAID configurations with Runtime Software Virtual Image files (VIM).

Additional file system features

Full UNICODE support for UNICODE file systems;
Code page conversion and UFS-7/UTF-8 unicode decoding for non-unicode file systems and thus full localized file names support.

See also: Data Access, Help topics.