Mac and NTFS

[BoulderBum]

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?

 

[sidewinder]

The MacFuse/NTFS-3G solution works just fine.

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[VPrime]

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.

 

[illegallydead]

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 😀

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 🙄

 

[BoulderBum]

Thanks, guys!

I just discovered that NTFS shouldn't matter over a network because of SAMBA, is that correct?

 

[belvdr]

Yes. Only the system directly accessing the disk needs NTFS support. The network provides a translation.

 

[DoFoT9]

Thanks, guys!

I just discovered that NTFS shouldn't matter over a network because of SAMBA, is that correct?

SMB is teh way to go, mac supports it natively with no extra additional software installed..

MacFuse + NTFS-3G for direct support.

 

[illegallydead]

Thanks, guys!

I just discovered that NTFS shouldn't matter over a network because of SAMBA, is that correct?

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 😛

 

[sidewinder]

Thanks, guys!

I just discovered that NTFS shouldn't matter over a network because of SAMBA, is that correct?

Don't you just hate it when people don't supply all the pertinent information?

S-

 

[BoulderBum]

Don't you just hate it when people don't supply all the pertinent information?

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Sorry, I actually didn't know it was pertinent until my last post. 🙂