Actually, as of Windows 8.1 (64-bit only), ReFS is now supported which does have those features: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReFS https://en.wikipedia.org/wi

Actually, as of Windows 8.1 (64-bit only), ReFS is now supported which does have those features: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReFS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReFS So in the near future, Windows will have an answer for the general mainstream, while OS X will be left far behind. Even ignoring the checksumming issue, HFS+ has known pathologies not only in reliability but in performance compared to NTFS or even ext4 on Linux. HFS+ is long overdue for replacement.