NTFS-3G Safe Read/Write NTFS Driver Reviews

Thanks a lot.

I think the reviews for the product are really underrated. This thing is not very easy to install in any system, also sometimes the default configuration is not fully functional, but the good side is that is eventually works. And it is free to use. Of course in USB3 era the speed is not so fast as you expect, it keeps itself on a level of 20-30 MB/s which is not bad acually, but just morally old. The linux like distros usually does not have trouble with installing at all, just one or more command to execute. The mac machines are optimized for sell products, not use something for free, but still, installing the product is quite easy, well, relatively to what it can take if there was not homebrew project exist. After installing there still some configure trouble, as for some reason finder does not show files, but only folders, but this also can be solved adding "auto_xattr" option in mount_ntfs script. Mac troubles are serious only for those who not familiar with basic terminal usage, and those who afraid to use ntfs-3g for security reasons (also this can be fixed with enought qualification, and does not concern simple users at all), but for general auditory there are payed alternatives like Paragon and Tuxera. I would myself prefer those if I would use my Mac for professional NTFS disk write, but for home from time to time use, the free ntfs-3g project is more than enough. I remember it from the linux era, when it could just brick the volume. But those times are gone, today it is fully functional, the "slow" speed is main trouble. "Slow" is for the modern speed limits of course.

It was a great project. Working with ntfs even better than Windows. Of course, slow, but what do you wait from non-native system? But at now... It is a great problem: current builds of windows don't understand ntfs-created directories. No way to allow access (otherwise than recreate directory from recovery or from lower windows version). No takeown (from admin), fsck or so on. Seems like ntfs-3g creates directories without correct owner specifying. Of course, "Everyone" or "Administrator" would be a good choice, and the best would be inherit from parent directory (or whole disk).

Free tool, but with very slow transfer speed(( I will purchase Paragon NTFS for Mac, it is faster and more reliable, I can afford myself to spend 20 bucks on it.