MacFuse alternative for FULL read / write of NTFS drives
Posted in Apple by Derek at 2:29 pm
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.
6 Comments, Comment or Trackback
Edward
Nice, any comments on how well Paragon NTFS is working?
Edward
Nov 15th, 2007
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.
Nov 15th, 2007
Jon
i did last week. used the unstable build and got 20BM/sec transfers
Nov 15th, 2007
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.
Nov 16th, 2007
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/
Nov 16th, 2007
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!
Nov 18th, 2007
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