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MacFuse alternative for FULL read / write of NTFS drives

November 15, 2007 by in Apple with 6 Comments

For the past four months, I would routinely boot into Windows XP via VMware Fusion in order to mount my Mvix MX-760HD video player. Because the device only supported NTFS formatted drives larger than 32GB (FAT), I had no other choice. A tedious and time consuming task.

Fortunately, while checking out TUAW, I discovered Paragon NTFS. Paragon, priced at $30, brings full read / write access of NTFS drives from within OS X (without the extra step of virtualizing Windows). Paragon offers a free 10-day trial of the software.

A small price to pay for NTFS access on OS X. Previously, I had experimented with MacFuse in 10.4 Tiger with dismal results. If anyone has managed to get MacFuse working on 10.5 Leopard, drop a comment.


  • http://www.jamboconsulting.com/weblog/ Edward

    Nice, any comments on how well Paragon NTFS is working?

    Edward

  • Howard

    Did you use MacFuse manually with the Console? Have you tried NTFS-3G for OSX? It’s a simple GUI installation process and the latest version works with Leopard.

    Link: http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/

    Also, if you have problems with it, just leave a comment and the developer will help you out. He’s a really nice guy and very responsive.

  • Jon

    i did last week. used the unstable build and got 20BM/sec transfers

  • Howard

    Oh, my question is how fast is Paragon compared to NTFS-3G. I know the Paragon website have this big benchmark chart. But what I want to know is real world test of writing to a NTFS drive. Thank you.

  • Paul

    My results were
    Paragon NTFS: 20 MB/sec
    NTFS-3G with UBLIO cache disabled: 1 MB/sec
    NTFS-3G with UBLIO cache enabled: 20 MB/sec

    For the latter I used http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/

  • bopmachine

    Just wanna chime in and say I bought Paragon NTFS on this post’s recommendation and can’t be more happy. For all intents and purposes all my NTFS partitions act native in OSX. Great recommendation!

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