On Feb 23, 2011, at 11:33 AM, Dan wrote: > At 10:48 AM -0700 2/23/2011, Bruce Johnson wrote: >> On Feb 23, 2011, at 10:39 AM, Dan wrote: >> >>> Out of the box, OS X (Tiger thru SL) can read NTFS (windows native file >>> system). >>> >>> This product lets you read *and write* to NTFS volumes! And today, it's >>> FREE!!!!! >>> >>> <http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/> >> >> How does that compare to NTFS3G >> <http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/> ? > > No idea, but I'm guessing that it might be far superior to this Paragon > product. At this point, my zeal for Paragon has waned. Their installer is > apparently broken. I got past its registration panes and am now stuck with a > dimmed Install button. >
Bleah. Think I'll hold off. So far I've been happy with the the open source NTFS-3G, although it's oftimes very slow to mount a volume. However that may be because as a rule, the NTFS volumes I mount are out of troubled systems and have ALWAYS been shut down dirty. I think it's taking some time to time out before asking me to force mount it. Once it does read/writes are reasonably fast; since, in general I'm just copying files off a hdd to the network via a ATA/SATA-USB adapter, I'm not entirely sure where the bottleneck is. I've had Windows force a disk check upon remounting a drive I've read or written to occasionally...again, since I'm only ever dealing with sick windows systems, I'm not sure if it's due to NTFS-3G or the underlying issues with the disk. >> Also they're giving away their HFS+ product for Windows, too. > > Well, if this the same quality as this Mac installer... maybe FREE is about > the right price?! Well, I'll load it onto my Windows VM and see what it does. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
