

It also offers some additional features to its open-source counterpart, NTFS-3G, along with commercial support. It has been engineered to bring our customers maximum possible performance when accessing NTFS drives while keeping their data safe. It also has lots of users on Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris, and NetBSD. Overview of Tuxera NT for macOSĪ commercial NTFS driver developed from the popular open-source NTFS-3G driver, a natural part of all major Linux distributions. NTFS-3G is a completely free NTFS for Mac program by Tuxera to read and write NTFS drives on macOS, Linux, Android, FreeBSD, and other operating systems. It is a Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Tuxera that provides read-write support for NTFS-formatted USB drives. Remark: the exFAT format is also not recommended, due to its lack of journalising, it could lead to data or file loss.Free Download Tuxera NTFS full version standalone offline installer for macOS.

Hence, it is not recommended to use the NTFS format on macOS.

The Tuxera NTFS performed terribly in respect of loading speed, hence, we'd say it is not suitable for storing Eagle Library.įrom the test, it is evident that there's a huge performance gap between mac's native disk format(Mac OS Extended) and the Tuxera NTFS, whether in terms of simple file copy with Finder or in terms of loading thumbnails within Eagle UI, in the worst-case tested as above, the Tuxera NTFS can only run the drive at 21.1% of its original speed.

This part is to test the comparison in speed between Tuxera and native Mac OS Extended on the same external drive, by copying 50,000 files through Finder from the local drive to the external drive: WD 2TB HDD.
