Best way to write to NTFS partitions?

[MrTwister]

What is the best way to read/write with NTFS partitions (internal and external drives)?

I have MacFUSE already installed with virtual machine.

 

[spinnerlys]

Tuxera NTFS-3g (commercial and free)
Paragon NTFS

Btw, Mac OS X can read NTFS formatted volumes natively.

FAT32

• Read/Write FAT32 from both native Windows and native Mac OS X.
• No individual file larger than 4GB.

NTFS

• Read/Write NTFS from native Windows.
• Read only NTFS from native Mac OS X
• To Read/Write NTFS from Leopard: Install MacFUSE and NTFS-3G. You can install both with NTFS-3G for Mac OS X.
• To Read/Write NTFS from Snow Leopard: Guide: Enable native NTFS Read/Write in Snow Leopard
• (Be aware that some are of the opinion that enabling native NTFS in SL is unstable/unreliable, and favor the MacFuse/NTFS-3G method for Snow Leopard)

HFS

• Read/Write HFS from native Mac OS X
• To Read/Write HFS from Windows, Install MacDrive
• To Read HFS (but not Write) from Windows, Install HFSExplorer

 

[MrTwister]

spinnerlys, would it be less painful to read/write HFS partitions from Windows?

Assume I have an external hard-disk drive for personal storage and file movement between my own computers?

 

[spinnerlys]

spinnerlys, would it be less painful to read/write HFS partitions from Windows?

Assume I have an external hard-disk drive for personal storage and file movement between my own computers?

In my experience: yes. MacDrive is quite a capable application and the write and read speeds are much better with MacDrive than with the NTFS drivers for Mac OS X.

You can also use FAT32, but no file should be larger than 4GB.
Or you can use a network between the two computers.

 

[MrTwister]

In my experience: yes. MacDrive is quite a capable application and the write and read speeds are much better with MacDrive than with the NTFS drivers for Mac OS X.

You can also use FAT32, but no file should be larger than 4GB.
Or you can use a network between the two computers.

FAT32 is also very unsafe so I would not like to use it for large file storage as HDD is. I also tend not to use it for USB Flash Pen drives.

Is MacDrive safe at file writing? Does it have bad impact on stability of Windows?

SMB on a local network is not always available or applicable.

 

[spinnerlys]

Is MacDrive safe at file writing? Does it have bad impact on stability of Windows?

What doesn't impact stability on Windows?

But in my experience, MacDrive hasn't done any harm to my Windows machine, but I used MacDrive extensively in 2004/2005 until I got rid of my Windows PC. For now I just use it sporadically to read HFS+ volumes, but I always use the Demo, since it is always another computer I have to use MacDrive with.

 

[GGJstudios]

FAT32 is also very unsafe

FAT32 is not unsafe. It simply has a limitation of 4GB per file.

Is MacDrive safe at file writing?

Yes, quite safe.

Does it have bad impact on stability of Windows?

Not at all.