What is people using for a cross platform file system support?
Fat32?

Trying to get a common external drive file system suitable for Mac / windows.

Is paragon NTFS driver for Mac good? (usd20) worth the purchase?

Looks like between paragon and Tuxera, paragon performance is better.

I mainly using it for external drive and also for VMware fusion. (Windoes guest )

I am using exFAT. There is a free method that allows OS X to write on NTFS drive, but sometimes it will copy unnecessary files too that are viewable in Windows.

ExFAT is apparently dangerous as it does not have any journalling at all.

performance difference based on black magic


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dangerous? sorry, but im a bit noob

can you explain in briefly and easy to understand what is journaling and the imprtance

thanks in advance

I am using paragon NTFS driver for Mac (Paid Version).

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Btw, your signature is wrong grammatically.


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I use tuxera NTFS. Really helpful since it can read/write NTFS external hard disk very well. Haven't encounter any problem that I am aware of.

Only that when I read the external hard disk from a windows OS computer it seems to have shortcut-virus... So I scan my hard disk monthly , hoping that my files survive

I bought Toshiba Canvio ext drives and it comes with a free Tuxera driver to enable you to write to NTFS drives


This post has been edited by idoblu: Dec 26 2016, 09:54 PM

free for lifetime?

i think so, btw it also works for my other brand ext hdd

i think it is good to use NTFS, as it is more widely comparable in any devices including legacy devices.

newer devices can support exFat already. but for better compatibility, NTFS is better as of now. Anyway, Mac can read/write NTFS easily thru any freeware or third party tools.

but the paragon NTFS very expensive man

There are other freeware available.

ive been using tuxera..

buy a seagate external then you can get paragon NTFS for free

some people i know prefers to have a hfs+ on their external and just installed paragon hfs+ on their own windows desktop. then whatever files they want to share would thumb into it on exFAT.

not so much of a hassle imo since thumb drives are so big and can just thumb about anything

This post has been edited by soitsuagain: Jan 1 2017, 12:19 PM

Seeget portable had disk is the worst Hardisk the transfer speed is damn slow comparing to WD. Not consistent also.

ExFat for all my drives

i'm using canvio toshiba.. where you got it lol ?

here you go - http://support.toshiba.com/support/viewCon...ntentId=4008404

it said cannot find toshiba hard disk.. maybe you buy special convio version?

Hmmm...🤔
Wait later I take a picture of it. How does yours look like?

Mine is canvio connect II


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I ended just using ntfs since I still mostly used windows on other devices with tuxera and share it with samba

Also, mac samba is not that good as it turns out
I installed smbup instead and was getting 70-80mbps gigabit transfer speed to compared 40-50mbps with built in mac samba.

Toshiba Canvio Ready Portable 1 TB

using paragon ntfs. never failed me.

anyone using any ntfs tool for M1 macs?