For these purposes, I have three harddrives installed on my Hack. A 160GB SATA, which is my OS X install. A 75GB SATA, which is my Vista Ultimate x86 install, and a 500GB SATA for media storage and swap. I want to be able to access this drive (for music, pictures, videos, etc) from both installs. Currently, it's formatted NTFS. I installed NTFS-3G on my mac install, but I've had several problems. Freezes while reading from the NTFS partition occasionally (most of the time). Now, my question is this- Would I better formatting the 500GB storage HFS to be read natively in OS X, and using MacDrive from the Windows side?

paragon NTFS for MAC ... im using it .. its better than ntfs3g ..