![]() ![]() After reformatting as NTFS, that rate increased slightly to 105.7 MBps read and 106.5 MBps write. Using a 1TB portable hard drive formatted OS X Extended, Speed Test clocked 104.2 megabytes per second (MBps) read and 104.8 MBps write connected via USB 3.0 on a mid-2012 Retina MacBook Pro. I ran Blackmagic Speed Test to see how NTFS for Mac 14 fared against a native OS X drive. (Paragon recently released a free edition for OS X Yosemite and earlier.) Version 14 is fully compatible with OS X El Capitan, but Intel systems running OS X Lion or earlier remain limited to version 12, which is also included free of charge. I’m happy to report Paragon has addressed both shortcomings: It’s now half the previous price, and up to six times faster than At nearly $40, the software was also expensive for Mac users who required infrequent write access. Native performanceĪlthough NTFS for Mac has always been a convenient utility worth owning, it was typically slower at writing than native OS X volumes. Paragon relocated the format option to System Preferences, and also threw in new options to verify or repair NTFS volumes. The software also now includes built-in verify and repair options specially tuned for Windows-formatted volumes. After updating to El Capitan, the write function seems to be Press J to jump to the feed. Mac OS X can read files on NTFS hard drives, but it cant write files to them, which is a glaring omission. In Yosemite, I used OSXFuse to enable writing to my NTFS formatted external hard drive. ![]() While earlier versions relied on Apple’s Disk Utility to format drives, the latest version relocates this option to System Preferences. Enable writing to NTFS hard drives for free in Mac OS X (including El Capitan) Windows uses the NTFS file system for its hard drives. ![]()
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