System Requirements and Compatibility

System Minimum Hardware Requirements

• Recent Intel i3 or comparable dual-core 64-bit processor
• 4 GB of system memory (RAM)
• HDD or SSD (PATA/IDE, SATA, NVME, SCSI, USB interfaces are supported)
• Internet access (for activation and update/upgrade online)
• 1024×768 display
• USB Type-A port. USB Type-C is not officially supported, however MetaDefender Drive can boot via an typeA-typeC USB adator

Operating System, File System, and Disk Encryptions Compatibility

Windows® XP, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11; Windows® Server 2012, 2016, 2019.

• File Systems: FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, exFAT (ReFS support is planned)
• Encryptions: BitLocker, both User Password and Recovery Key
• MetaDefender Drive does not yet support hardware-based full disk encryption (known to come as default on some Windows Home laptops)

macOS and Macs: Intel-based Macs from 2006 to 2017

• File Systems: HFS, HFS+, APFS
• Encryption: FileVault for APFS

Linux: Debian 5 based (or newer), RHEL 6 based (or newer)

• File Systems: EXT2, EXT3, EXT4, XFS, BTRFS, ReiserFS, JFS (ZFS support is planned)
• Encryption: LUKS/LVM2