XTuga Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 If I try access read/write a NTFS disk on Mac OS X will I get the same speed/performance than using a disk in HFS+ format?There will be in having a NTFS disk and share it between both OS (W10 and Mac OS X)?Note: Tuxera NTFS is the sw I use to write in NTFS disks.[i'm making the questions since I prefer have a large 4TGb disk that I can share between my Mac OS X and my Windows 10, instead of having 2 disks in difference formats. Disk will be connected via SATA 6Gb] Ex - Option 11) M.2 SATA Samsung Evo 512Gb - HFS+ [Mac OSX 10.10.5]2) SSD Samsung Evo 256Gb - NTFS [Windows 10]3) Seagate Barracuda 4Gb - NTFS [All the content] Ex - Option 2 1) M.2 SATA Samsung Evo 512Gb - HFS+ [Mac OSX 10.10.5]2) SSD Samsung Evo 256Gb - NTFS [Windows 10]3) Seagate Barracuda 2Gb - HFS+ [mac OS X content] 3) Seagate Barracuda 2Gb - NTFS [Windows 10 content] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOtherDave Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 It's four (!) years old at this point, but not according to this: http://girlyngeek.blogspot.com/2011/08/comparison-of-ntfs-drivers-for-mac-os-x.html The short version is: For single files, NTFS is as fast as HFS+, unless you're using the 4-year-old version of Tuxera (I didn't see them mention which version specifically), in which case it's a bit slower. For directories, NTFS is *abysmally* slow compared to HFS+, unless you're using the 4-year-old version of Tuxera, in which case it's slightly less abysmal. There's a third option as well: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/4-ways-read-mac-formatted-drive-windows/(The title is misleading... their "4th way" is to reformat the drive so that Windows can natively read it.) And of course the fourth option is to get a NAS server and store your content on that, but that feels like cheating... and spending lots of money... (boo) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artur_pt Posted August 23, 2015 Share Posted August 23, 2015 hello never use any no native rw formats in any OS.. if u depend any third part software to do that .. only hope big problems .. good hack 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riley Freeman Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 You could use exFat as it's natively supported on both sides. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Hurt Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 I only have bad experiences with exfat on OS X (Mavericks). Never used it again after that. Hope it's fixed. My external hard disk kept getting its boot sector corrupted and I had to reboot into windows and manually repair it via cmd chkdsk every couple of days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slice Posted September 3, 2015 Share Posted September 3, 2015 It's fixed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTuga Posted September 15, 2015 Author Share Posted September 15, 2015 Since I don't find any updated information I end up to do myself some tests and get some conclusions.Here is the post I made to share my findings: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/308077-file-system-speed-test-hfs-ntfs-extfat-fat32/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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