MacFuse alternative for FULL read / write of NTFS drives
Posted in Apple by Derek at 2:29 pm
This post was published 2 years 2 months 27 days ago which may make its actuality or expire date not be valid anymore. This site is not responsible for any misunderstanding.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.
Nice, any comments on how well Paragon NTFS is working?
Edward
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.
i did last week. used the unstable build and got 20BM/sec transfers
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.
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/
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!