7/4/2011 4:17 AM

Windows Storage Devices Personal Storage:

Opportunities and challenges for pocket-sized storage devices pocketin the Windows world
Emily Hill Program Manager WDEG Storage Microsoft Corporation Vishal Ghotge Program Manager Core File Systems Microsoft Corporation

Strategic pillars
Storage Fabrics
Server/Enterprise

Leading platform enabling storage fabric adoption Optimized platform features enabling your Windows experience, here and now Timely, comprehensive, quality platform support for optical devices Preferred platform for developing, deploying, and using storage devices

Personal Storage
Client/Consumer

Optical Platform
Client/Consumer

Preferred Storage Platform

Partner/Customer

Agenda
How is the Microsoft focus changing for personal storage? Windows Vista reflections of those changes
Driver integration work New scenarios enabled Solutions to customer problems

What Is Personal Storage

Flash Cards Small form factor drives UFDs Smartcards Cameras Cell phones Etc.
Size
Desktop (non(non-portable)

Bus Speed
High Bandwidth (1+gb/s)

Power Supply
Independent power

PCs

Smart Phones and PDAs

Storage Capacity
MultiMulti-GB

Processing Power
PCPC-class

Our thoughts for the future

New scenarios Technology updates

None/ Low

Overall Approach
Creating a platform infrastructure to enable industry expansion in this space Broadening the range of users and scenarios Promoting and delivering key end to end scenarios Participate in the industry eco-system ecooffering guidance and solutions for vendor integration issues

Security: A Critical Piece Of The Puzzle

Security is driving IT decision making
Improving data security remains the most important investment priority in 2005 (IDC, 2005 Personal and Mobile Computing Survey) Consumer Security Fears Help Drive Adoption of New Devices (Jupiter Research, 2005)

Security enables the growth of personal storage use in the enterprise Security opens up a wider range of uses for all users The industry needs to advance as a whole
Consumers and small businesses are not prepared for the security threats inherent in a digital lifestyle Fear could diminish adoption of any new functionality if not preceded with security improvements

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Windows Vista Features: Group Policy

New Group Policy settings
Enable IT Admins to manage removable storage use in their environments

Windows Vista Features: Driver Improvements

Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2
SD
Performance Improvements MMC Card support, compliant with SD host controller standard High speed card support

What it does
Configurable on a per machine and per user basis Covers traditional storage as well as Windows Portable Devices Allows addition of custom device class GUIDs

Smartcard
Continued robustness improvements

Windows Vista Only

SD
High capacity card support New SDIO device sample code in WDK Windows Logo program/ validation tests for Standard Host Controller

Shipping details
Windows Vista Only Companion to DMI installation policies

USB Storage
16 byte CDB support Improved idle support 128k default transfers

Agenda exFAT
Vishal Ghotge Program Manager Core File Services Microsoft Corporation
Background for FAT16/FAT32 Need for a new filesystem Advantage of FAT Design goals of exFAT Some key features of exFAT Development/release schedule Licensing information

Background
FAT12/16 is the standard in the CE world
All CE devices implement FAT All flash media are sold pre-formatted prewith FAT

Advantages Of FAT 12/16/32

FAT is a simple filesystem It can be easily implemented in firmware It is easy to achieve interop Industry understands FAT very well

FAT16 can handle up to 2 GB media FAT32 has already emerged as the next standard

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Need For A New Filesystem

Some limitations for FAT32
Maximum file size is 4 GB Designed for smaller capacity media Difficult to add new features Designed/implemented for hard-drives hardnot for flash

Design Goals Of exFAT

Be as similar to FAT32 as possible Overcome FAT32s limitations Design for the future
Make it extensible Scale to large volume sizes Manage large files

Windows format tool can format up to 32 GB media with FAT32 To meet new requirements of flash media and devices we need a new filesystem

Designed to optimize for flash media

exFAT A simple, extensible, rich filesystem for next generation devices and flash media

Some Key Features Of exFAT

Free space bitmap
Identifies free and available clusters on the volume Advantage
Faster look-up for free space allocation lookFaster deletes

Some Key Features Of exFAT

Extensibility for the future
Directory structure is flexible and extensible Easy to add new features Can add some features without breaking compatibility

Support for large files

File size field is 8 bytes Theoretical maximum file size of 264 bytes

Name hashes
2 byte checksum of up-cased file name upAllows for faster checks of filenames

Large cluster size

The on-disk structure limit for cluster size is 2255 onImplementation limit is 32 MB

OEM specific parameters and types

Feature to store OEM specific volume information

Points To Note
exFAT is not backward compatible with FAT32 There are no short names in exFAT

Development/Release Plans
Currently under development in Windows and Windows CE
Windows
Will be available post Windows Vista exFAT beta program http://connect.microsoft.com

Windows CE
Will be available on the next Windows CE release

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Targeted Solutions Areas Of Investigation For Future Investments

End to end scenarios
Safe placement of personal/enterprise content Carrying protected content on a card Enabling authentication for personal storage

Platform
Feature negotiation Industry guidance on media readers Movement to user mode drivers where feasible

Working Assumptions: User

Users want security and privacy the most
They just expect it to be performant, stable, and reliable

Working Assumptions: Developers And Vendors

Developers
Want to find and manipulate devices and device contents
Developers will build new types of applications to work with multifunction storage devices

Users want seamless common experiences

Uniform interface for bulk data and metadata, regardless of media type

Want a uniform enumeration, description and control mechanism for devices Want a common content model for different device classes
Developers desire the same model for storage like devices, independent of protocol underneath

Users want control the movement of their sensitive content Users want the ability to manage their data and devices

Vendors
Want to lower their device development and support costs
A common control/transfer protocol will lower vendor development costs Testing and validation tools would lower vendor development costs A common content format will lower vendor development costs

Content vendors want easy to use common protection

Supporting Technology Updates

SD
ADMA support after the standard is finalized

UMDF Smartcard Reader Support

Smartcard
Investigating a moving to UMDF
Simplify PnP and power code Enables user mode debugging Improves system stability and reliability

Janet Schneider Software Design Engineer WDEGWDEG- Storage

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Call To Action
Sign up for the exFAT beta program Start testing with exFAT Be aware, and keep an eye on this space as we continue to grow and change
Engage with Microsoft if this space is critical to your business Give us feedback on our assumptions and where our directions need to go!

Additional Resources
exFAT licensing information
Contact: Iplg @ microsoft.com Visit http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=65752

Web resources
Whitepapers: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage

Related sessions
The rest of the storage track! UserUser-Mode Driver Framework: Introduction and Overview Innovations in Wired and Wireless USB

Feedback: Hec6stor @ microsoft.com

2006 Microsof t Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The inf ormation herein is f or informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

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