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Mac and NTFS

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BoulderBum

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I'm considering getting my first Mac, and am in the stages of doing research.

So far, I've discovered a few wrinkles, one being NTFS file support. Has anyone used the NTFS drivers for Mac and, if so, what do you think?
 
I have used both the free Macfuse+NTFS-3G and the not free paragon NTFS software.
They are pretty much the same, I find the macfuse one a little slower though......
But they are both much much slower than native ntfs in windows.
 
Mac OSX will read NTFS-formatted volumes fine, just so you know. For full read/write support, you will need to get some sort of 3rd party utility.

As others have mentioned, you have a few options. I personally use Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X. The $40 cost is easy to justify if you are going to be working with Windows drives more than a few times, or of course if you have a general disregard for copyright law :D

At least OS X will let you read the drives out of the box, which is MUCH better than Windows' way of dealing with HFS+: simply denying that the disk even exists :rolleyes:
 
Thanks, guys!

I just discovered that NTFS shouldn't matter over a network because of SAMBA, is that correct?
 
Yes. Only the system directly accessing the disk needs NTFS support. The network provides a translation.
 
BoulderBum said:
Thanks, guys!

I just discovered that NTFS shouldn't matter over a network because of SAMBA, is that correct?
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Correct. All you will have to do is Go/Connect to Server then enter the network location/name. Pretty simple, and you don't need NTFS support for it.

Certainly a nice thing to have though, god forbid all the OS's would just play nice :p
 
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