Full read/write access to NTFS. Mac® OS X provides limited support of NTFS, the primary file system of any Windows PC.

Unprecedented high NTFS performance. The transfer rate is the same as with the native HFS file system!.

Let’s take a look at the key features of both NTFS for Mac OS X and HFS+ for Windows. Even if you exclusively use a Mac, you are bound to need to access an NTFS formatted drive as there’s just so many Windows machines out there in the world. And in fact, this is the first piece of software that I would recommend anyone who just gotten a Mac to purchase (see my newbie’s guide to the 10 must have OS X software to install here). After the installations, you Mac machine will be able to both read and write onto NTFS formatted drives and your Windows machine will be able to read and write on HFS+ formatted drives. You really don’t have to tweak any settings if you don’t want to. In fact, all you need to really do is to just install them and it would work right out of the box.

But read on to find out how you can get these great software at an exclusive discount!īoth NTFS for Mac OS X and HFS+ for Windows are fairly simple to you. NTFS for Mac OS X and HFS+ for Windows will cost you US$19.95 each and you can also purchase a bundle of both if you prefer at $39.90. Well that’s exactly what Paragon Software’s NTFS for Mac OS X and HFS+ for Windows provides you with.

So which should you choose? Well, what if you didn’t need to choose and can use both HFS+ and NTFS on either your Mac and Windows machines! Wouldn’t that be awesome? By default, the Mac can only read NTFS disks and Windows obviously could not even load an HFS+ formatted disk.Īnd you definitely do not want to use FAT filesystems on a 500GB portable hard disk. If you use both Mac and Windows, deciding on which file system to format your portable hard disk can sometimes be tricky.

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