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MP 7,1 NTFS Software for Mac Pro 2019

Photios

Photios

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I recently purchased a 2019 Mac Pro and have Windows 11 installed on a separate ssd on a PCI card. I would like to access the Bootcamp volume in Mac OS. Does anyone have a recommendation for NTFS software that will allow me to do this? It seems there are several alternatives out there, and I'm wondering of someone here has some experience and advice they can offer.

Thank you!
 
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There are free options like

Mounty for NTFS

Mounty for NTFS - a tiny tool for macOS to re-mount NTFS volumes in read-write mode.
mounty.app
that are based on the freely available 'NTFS-3G' driver:

Open source NTFS-3G, Reliance Edge, TUFS, POSIX, other contributions

Tuxera's open-source projects include NTFS-3G and open-source Reliance Edge file systems. We contribute to POSIX, TUFS, Linux kernel, & more.
www.tuxera.com www.tuxera.com
I am using the commercial variant 'Tuxera NTFS' since a decade and it never failed me. ($15 USD)

Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Tuxera – read & write Windows drives on Mac - Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Tuxera–Read & write Windows drives

NTFS for Mac by Tuxera gives you access and full read / write capability to Windows NTFS-formatted drives on your Mac.
ntfsformac.tuxera.com ntfsformac.tuxera.com
 
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arw said:
There are free options like

Mounty for NTFS

Mounty for NTFS - a tiny tool for macOS to re-mount NTFS volumes in read-write mode.
mounty.app
that are based on the freely available 'NTFS-3G' driver:

Open source NTFS-3G, Reliance Edge, TUFS, POSIX, other contributions

Tuxera's open-source projects include NTFS-3G and open-source Reliance Edge file systems. We contribute to POSIX, TUFS, Linux kernel, & more.
www.tuxera.com www.tuxera.com
I am using the commercial variant 'Tuxera NTFS' since a decade and it never failed me. ($15 USD)

Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Tuxera – read & write Windows drives on Mac - Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Tuxera–Read & write Windows drives

NTFS for Mac by Tuxera gives you access and full read / write capability to Windows NTFS-formatted drives on your Mac.
ntfsformac.tuxera.com ntfsformac.tuxera.com
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Is there any particular reason not to use a solution that is free?
Thank you!
 
Photios said:
Is there any particular reason not to use a solution that is free?
Thank you!
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In the early days, the speed of 'NTFS-3G' was significantly lower and I remember issues when trying to format a disk as NTFS and general stability issues. When the paid 'Tuxera' version added the option to even repair NTFS volumes, I switched and never had any problems ever since.
But that was several (+10) years ago and the free derivate might have caught up in the meantime.
It might be equally suitable nowadays - I cannot tell you, sorry.
 
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sfalatko said:
And I am using Paragon NTFS for Mac - and have for years. It is $29.95.

www.paragon-software.com

Microsoft NTFS for Mac | Paragon Software

Boost Your Mac with Paragon File System Link. Read/write Microsoft NTFS files on your Mac for free.
www.paragon-software.com www.paragon-software.com
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Totally agree, is brilliant & updates are free so far. It integrates fully and transparently with any macos version I've used & currently with Sonoma. One of the nice things is that itt also seems to 'switch on' macos disk untiliy & which then not only fully recognises NTFS volume but can also format them. Has a lot of its own tools in its control panel & which fully integrates into macos system preferences as its own entry.

Re. the free 'Mounty for NTFS' I don't have any experience with that, but you could always install & try. I would say its information page does seem to show some caveats however, eg, like needing a third party kernal driver etc, see https://mounty.app/
 
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sfalatko said:
And I am using Paragon NTFS for Mac - and have for years. It is $29.95.

www.paragon-software.com

Microsoft NTFS for Mac | Paragon Software

Boost Your Mac with Paragon File System Link. Read/write Microsoft NTFS files on your Mac for free.
www.paragon-software.com www.paragon-software.com
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I use this as well. It's been working great for me for years. I like being able to both read and write to NTFS drives. None of the free options have been very good. You get what you pay for in this case.
 
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I'm also a user of Paragon NTFS for Mac since at least 2017ish and never had issues - I probably can count with just one hand the apps that I never had any issue.
 
I installed Paragon, and now I'm getting Kernel Panics. Oh boy!!!

What is interesting is that I've had Apple Silicon computers since 2020 and have not had one kernel panic on any of them.
 
tsialex said:
I'm also a user of Paragon NTFS for Mac since at least 2017ish and never had issues - I probably can count with just one hand the apps that I never had any issues
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Include me on 3 macs works like a charm
 
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