DGNeo Posted July 20, 2009 Share Posted July 20, 2009 Hey everyone. I just finished getting my Hackintosh all set up. Everything works like a dream, except for my HDD. I have my main OS drive, which works fine. I then have my secondary 1TB drive, SATA, that is giving me the issues. Anytime I go to play music off of it, or anything at all, it seems to have to spin up EVERYTIME. Sometimes it'll stay up for a while, othertimes it'll do it randomly in the middle of songs. I know for a fact that the HDD is working fine, because I've tested it in my XP machine, and I've had no issues whatsoever. Could it be the fact that it's formatted for NTFS, or because of its large size? Please help! Thanks! Well, I took the advice everyone else was given regarding NTFS drives, and I installed MacFuse + NTFS-3G, and my problems seem to have been solved! Thanks anyways haha Double edit: Looks like I spoke to soon. Just happened a couple of times. Please help Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/175756-poor-ntfs-performance/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daveta Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 try ntfs for mac by paragon...you'll find in the usual places Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/175756-poor-ntfs-performance/#findComment-1205102 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DGNeo Posted July 21, 2009 Author Share Posted July 21, 2009 Thanks for the tip. I tried it out, unfortunately it's still doing it. =[. Does anyone else have any recommendations? Could it possibly be due to the fact that I have the SATA type in BIOS still set to AHCI? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/175756-poor-ntfs-performance/#findComment-1205792 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daveta Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 not, it's because mac don't like ntfs File system, and then.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/175756-poor-ntfs-performance/#findComment-1205810 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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