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GirthP

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Oct 1, 2007
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I just installed MacFUSE and NTFS 3G on my MBP, and it works like a dream reading and writing to NTFS formatted drives.

I partitioned my old internal hard drive, now living in the passport case I emptied recently ;), into a 30GB NTFS partition, and the rest HFS+.

Now I have a external drive that I can share with a M$ user if I need to share files.

Good times, good times.
 
I've used this as well, but I've found that write times are slower than FAT32. I wanted an external drive to be NTFS, but the writes were very noticeably slower, so I went back to FAT32. The software does work, though. It gets the job done.
 
Another happy NTFS-3G user here. As a recent switcher, I have several big external drives formatted in NTFS. Until I can change them over to HFS+ or something more open, NTFS-3G is a lifesaver.

What are the pros can cons of MacFuse versus Paragon's product?

MacFUSE + NTFS-3G is a free open source option. Paragon's product is a commercial application.
 
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