If you want to stick with the Apple ecosystem, you are free to use Apple APFS or HFS+. NTFS-3G is an awesome, free (gpl) Mac program, belonging to the category Utilities with subcategory Disk & Files and has been created by The NTFS-3G Project. One day it will stop working.Mac OS X updates can overwrite your replaced NTFS driver, and you have to re-install it again.Disk Utility cannot create new NTFS volumes with the native NTFS driver.If a volume was ungracefuly unmounted in Windows, it will be mounted read-only in Mac OS X, saying this message in system log:8/21/11 12:48:43.000 AM kernel: NTFS-fs error (device /dev/disk1s1, pid 4859): ntfs_system_inodes_get(): $LogFile is not clean. After that, install package ntfs-3g-mac from Terminal. NTFS-3G is an open-source cross-platform implementation of the Microsoft Windows NTFS file system with read/write support. Since macOS Ventura, the build-in mechanism to re-mount in read/write mode is removed, so Mounty now uses the open-source kernel driver NTFS-3G together with macFUSE.Design is still simple, but installation is more complex. Do not forget to “disable” NTFS-3G (globally or for your specific drive) in System Preferences before using this method.PROS:High speed of write operations – about 30 MB/s (compare to 3 MB/s with NTFS-3G).Deleted files go to the Trash folder rather than deleted instantly as with NTFS-3G.CONS:Well, this is a hack after all. Mounty now acts as user interface for the free available NTFS-3G driver. Ntfs-3gTo do so, download this archive (mirror: NTFS_Enabler.zip), and follow the instructions in “Terminal-CMD” text file. 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.
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