A MUST-HAVE for Mac. I have tried tuxera and paragon, though it might seem cheaper than the iboysoft drive manager, not sure what would it install with a big size installer, worried about the data integrity of the filesystem.This seems to be the best in market, with an installer 10x less than the competetors.using it is simple, just mount it and you are ready to write on your NTFS drives.
| Version 15.8.105 | Developer Paragon |
| Website https://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/ |
ABOUT PARAGON
- System in usual manner. Microsoft NTFS for Linux by Paragon Software 9.7 includes NTFS & HFS+ driver for Linux environment. Once appropriate components of Microsoft NTFS for Linux by Paragon Software 9.7 are installed, the operating system can mount these file systems and work with directories/files stored on the file systems. 1.4Key features.
- Paragon meanwhile is looking to mainline 'ntfs3' as their previously commercial NTFS kernel driver. The Paragon NTFS3 kernel driver has fully functioning write support, implements NTFS 3.1 specifications, and supports many other features not currently available with the mainline Tuxera NTFS kernel driver.
The company was established by a group of MIPT students in 1994. A separate mobile division, called the Mobility Division, was formed in 1995. The German office (Germany-based software company that develops hard drive management software, low-level file system drivers and storage technologies) opened in 1998, the Swiss office in 2000.
In 2004, the company started working with Fujitsu-Siemens on its handheld PCs Russian localization.[2]Next year, the company expanded the product line of office and gaming applications for Symbian OS and received the 'Developer of the Year' award in the Handango Champion Awards 2005.[3]
In 2011, PCMag recognized the company's flagshipsolution Paragon Hard Disk Manager as the best hard drive management program. Paragon Software Group also won Global Telecoms Business Innovation Award 2011 for their mobile solution.[4] The company is headquartered in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, with offices in the USA, China, Japan, Poland, and Russia
INSTALLATION of PARAGON NTFS 15 MAC
The installation of Paragon NTFS 15 Mac is easy and straightforward, but needs a reboot to finalise installation. It also needs to load an extra file in order to make the menu bar add-on.
WHY USE NTFS for MAC
Can't write, copy, edit or delete files on Microsoft NTFS-formatted drives from your Mac? It's because macOS has limited support for Windows volumes — that is, you can only read data, but can't write or delete anything. Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Paragon Software provides blazing fast, unlimited read/write access to Microsoft NTFS hard drives, SSDs or thumb drives formatted for Windows computers! This version also supports Apple's latest APFS file system (see image below).
This utility makes your external storage usable on any computer system Windows or Mac. So your data remains interchangeable and is fully adapted for macOS Big Sur.
PREFERENCES
Beside the menu bar add-on, Paragon's NTFS for Mac also has some preferences to set. Here you may choose to activate the new Big Sur dark look which looks great. Even if you have never used the Disk Utility you will find it very easy to learn the simple interface.
PERFORMANCE
Paragon Ntfs Linux
Microsoft NTFS is one of the primary file systems of Windows. If you work on a Mac computer and need to read or write files from HDD, SSD or a flash drive formatted under Windows, you need Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Paragon Software. Write, edit, copy, move and delete files on Microsoft NTFS volumes from your Mac! Fast, seamless, easy to use. Mount, unmount, verify, format or set any of your Microsoft NTFS volumes as a startup drive.
Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Paragon Software is the fastest file system driver on the market: 6x times faster than competing solutions (scans).
ERASE & VERIFY
Volumes can be created, erased and formatted just like one would do using Apple's Disk Utility application. The difference is that the Paragon allows you to do these activities on NTFS drives. You can manage your volumes easily from one place.
The verification of a volume will take some time depending on the size of the volume. Is you use ‘verify', on your basic partition your system becomes unusable for a few minutes, till finished.
VERDICT
Running a Mac and have NTFS formatted external disks, you definitely need Paragon NTFS 15 for Mac. It is well prices ( check) for offers!, and enables read and write access to your NTFs drives no matter what size. The speed at which you can read and write the data on these drives is the best of any competitor if there really is one. Anyone who needs to use Mac and Windows computers, needs this app for easy data transfer. The interface is best of any application found, and the application itself offers additional drive tools for taking full control. The latest version also supports Big Sur and APFS format to complete a perfect application. It is without real competition and deserves a full 5 star reward.
Last year, out of necessity to figure out which tool to use, I posted a comparison of Tuxera and Paragon NTFS drivers on macOS Sierra. I just bought a shiny new too-expensive-and-questionably-fit-for-sale MacBook Pro 2018, and the question is newly prescient. Some things have changed – we're on High Sierra looking to Mojave now, both drivers have new versions out, and this new machine now has not only USB 3.1 Gen2, but more generally, 160GBit/s I/O that could fully saturate virtually any storage device you could plug into it. That almost includes some hypothetical external RAMdisk. Part of my plan for this machine going forward is to start running space-intense tasks like VMs and my photo library from an external NVMe SSD that can actually utilize that silly bandwidth, and may itself be shared with Windows 10 machines, so here we are.
What's the same?
Licensing (kind of). Paragon still charges $20 for their NTFS driver, licensed per-machine with no upgrades. Tuxera still charges $31 for thiers, on a per-user basis with free upgrades to new versions. Winner: Tuxera. Except, there are some extenuating circumstances at the moment: Tuxera's currently on sale for $18, and Paragon has released a package suite of drivers which includes free upgrades, and is $50. These factors make things a little less straightforward, but still I feel sum up in Tuxera's favor. (UPDATE: Winrar evaluation copy. Originally, I thought the package suite was on SALE for $50, but I think that's actually the normal price and $100 is what you'd pay if you bought each alone. That makes Paragon a pretty darn good deal.)
What's different?
Features and interface. Paragon has developed significantly since last year. It has some pretty looking tools and interfaces, although I don't think they change much in a practical sense. It now comes with a pretty menu item which shows your drives and offers quick access repair/mounting/etc. If you don't find that useful, you can turn it off.
Tuxera is pretty much unchanged.
The UI differences are sort of neither here nor there, although for my money, change is good. Minor point to Paragon for making an obvious effort to keep pace with Mojave.
Performance comparison
Long story short: Paragon pretty much smokes Tuxera. For spinning disks, the performance comparison is mostly unchanged – they're both about the same, and performance varies ±10MB/s on the benchmark anyway depending on the direction of the wind. But the SSD performance delta has expanded from about 40% better for Paragon to more like 75% better for Paragon. Caveat emptor: this is moving from a 2.5GBit/s ExpressCard bottleneck on my old machine to the SSD's internal flash bottleneck on the new one, but still – Paragon couldn't quite saturate the ExpressCard on my old test, and now can just about saturate the SSD. These numbers are about what I get running a benchmark on a Windows machine with USB 3.0. Tuxera also improved over the old benchmark, as you can see, but not by nearly enough to even maintain that performance delta. Paragon is a clear and commanding winner here.
Paragon Ntfs Reviews
| Disk | Driver | Connection | 2017 Read (MB/s) | 2017 Write (MB/s) | 2018 Read (MB/s) | 2018 Write (MB/s) | Winner? |
| Internal SSD | (APFS) | NVMe | 2696.2 | 2646 | |||
| SSD | Paragon | USB3 | 187.3 | 167.2 | 428 | 422 | Paragon (75%) |
| SSD | Tuxera | USB3 | 133.1 | 119 | w/ caching: 242 w/o: 225 | w/ caching: 233 w/o: 105 | pretty reproduceable |
| HDD | Paragon | USB3 | 106.8 | 104.9 | 90 | 92 | Tie |
| HDD | Tuxera | USB3 | 104.7 | 103.6 | w/ caching: 97 w/o: 103 | w/ caching: 102 w/o: 80 | Both pretty variable. |
A note about caching
One thing I'm unclear on is how Paragon handles file system caching vs Tuxera. Tuxera offers the option to turn it off, at a performance penalty (that the benchmarks clearly show). Paragon offers no such option, so it's unclear to me if the driver is doing caching or not. On Windows, I have write caching turned off by default for external devices since it improves FS resilience in sudden-disconnect scenarios, which can be tough to avoid especially with portables. This doesn't seem to have a huge impact on performance, where it certainly does here. Oddly, Tuxera seems to be impacted even on read by having caching disabled, which I wouldn't have expected to be noticeable in these tests.
Conclusion
Paragon Ntfs Review
Now that I'm much more performance-conscious in my driver choice, I'm much more inclined to switch to Paragon. For now, I'm going to run the trial and decide how I feel at the end of that. It seems likely I'll buy the package deal for $50 with future upgrades, even though I don't really need the other drivers. Plus, I already have a Tuxera license to cover other machines where I'm less performance-conscious.
