Joolay Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 Im running 32 bit Win7, 32 bit XP, and 32 bit SnowLeo on a tri boot system with a minimal extra kexts added to get the system running beautifully.. I dont use XP often but Win7 and Snow fairly equally.. On Win7 I have MacDrive running to access my OSX partition.. and on OSX I have Paragon NTFS 7 to access my Win partitions.. both run fairly well to me but Im a noob so dont know much better.. I have another hard drive which I want to use to store all my data and music and videos etc.. I can change the default directories of both OSX and Windows to route to the extra hard drive.. Please tell me your opinion which is best in terms of performance speed and compatibility as a file system for the extra hard drive.. should I make it NTFS or HFS+ or Other? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/203517-shared-storage-between-triboot-win7-xp-and-snow/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
an1r0n Posted December 22, 2009 Share Posted December 22, 2009 Im running 32 bit Win7, 32 bit XP, and 32 bit SnowLeo on a tri boot system with a minimal extra kexts added to get the system running beautifully.. I dont use XP often but Win7 and Snow fairly equally.. On Win7 I have MacDrive running to access my OSX partition.. and on OSX I have Paragon NTFS 7 to access my Win partitions.. both run fairly well to me but Im a noob so dont know much better.. I have another hard drive which I want to use to store all my data and music and videos etc.. I can change the default directories of both OSX and Windows to route to the extra hard drive.. Please tell me your opinion which is best in terms of performance speed and compatibility as a file system for the extra hard drive.. should I make it NTFS or HFS+ or Other? Hello, i have a simmilar dual boot (OS X 10.5.8 and Win 7). I heard that paragon has a serious problems lately with NTFS partitions so I recommend NTFS 3G which I have been using and it works flawless. The only trick is to not set it in cache mode because it doesnt perform that well (even autors say that). Try it ; ) About external drive, if you use Win 7 equally as OS X than logical thing is to set it as NTFS since NTFS 3G can use it. All I have said I have tried and it won't cost you to nothing to try it : D Cheers Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/203517-shared-storage-between-triboot-win7-xp-and-snow/#findComment-1366811 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rabblefish Posted December 23, 2009 Share Posted December 23, 2009 If you're just using the external drive for storage, why don't you format it as FAT32? If I'm not mistaken (and feel free to correct me if I am!), all of your OSes should be able to work with it, and there shouldn't be any need for third party software. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/203517-shared-storage-between-triboot-win7-xp-and-snow/#findComment-1366894 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joolay Posted December 23, 2009 Author Share Posted December 23, 2009 Hmm interesting.. I completely forgot about fat32.. but that also reminds me.. there are file size limitations to fat32.. in fact I think NTFS also has some file size limitations if i remember correctly.. Also paragon apparently fixed their problems in their latest version and its apparently faster than NTFS-3G.. I haven't had any issues as yet although I think it killed auto-sleep but I used pleasesleep to overcome that.. I used to use NTFS-3G back in 10.5.7 but experienced occasional issues.. Its an internal drive not external.. My noob impression is that Macdrive performs better on Win7 than Paragon does on OSX.. I suppose NTFS-3G being free would make NTFS the logical choice.. but to overcome the limitations Im leaning toward HFS+ instead.. haven't found a decent free alternative to Macdrive but since I already have it it doesn't matter.. Thnx for your opinions Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/203517-shared-storage-between-triboot-win7-xp-and-snow/#findComment-1367087 Share on other sites More sharing options...
an1r0n Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 Hmm interesting.. I completely forgot about fat32.. but that also reminds me.. there are file size limitations to fat32.. in fact I think NTFS also has some file size limitations if i remember correctly.. Also paragon apparently fixed their problems in their latest version and its apparently faster than NTFS-3G.. I haven't had any issues as yet although I think it killed auto-sleep but I used pleasesleep to overcome that.. I used to use NTFS-3G back in 10.5.7 but experienced occasional issues.. Its an internal drive not external.. My noob impression is that Macdrive performs better on Win7 than Paragon does on OSX.. I suppose NTFS-3G being free would make NTFS the logical choice.. but to overcome the limitations Im leaning toward HFS+ instead.. haven't found a decent free alternative to Macdrive but since I already have it it doesn't matter.. Thnx for your opinions Fat32 has partition size limitations, just read all about it here : D NTFS 3G for mac is really amazing, as I told previously I use it with no problems. For me, NTFS i logical solution for your problem but you will know the best when you try it ; ) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/203517-shared-storage-between-triboot-win7-xp-and-snow/#findComment-1368201 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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