The only "gotcha" that I've ran across so far is that you need to "Safely Eject this Hardware" from within Windows or you'll get a complaint by NTFS-3G about data integrity. ![]() I've also taken the drive and presented it to my Windows 7 machine and it worked great on there too. I copied over 85GB of data to my brand new 500GB external drive, which is formatted with NTFS and everything seems to be working like a champ. Performance in my very simple file transfer tests seemed right on with Paragon's test results. After a reboot, I was able to read/write to my NTFS drives, and without paying anything. I removed Paragon from the system and installed NTFS-3G. NTFS-3G was referred as a Paragon alternative without the cost. ![]() ![]() Yet, I ran across the other solution on a blog, which is free. At only $19.95 (Fall Special right now), it didn't seem like that bad of an option. I was able to now read and write to my NTFS formatted external drives. Paragon looked like it would work great so I downloaded and installed the trial version off their website. I ran across basically 2 solutions that you can use for this. It's a great filesystem and I figured if I could get my Mac to beable to read and write a NTFS filesystem, that would work great. ![]() Since I really wanted the ability to use my drive on a Windows machine, I went back to NTFS.
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