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[jiffyslot]

Has anyone found a simple way to read/write to NTFS volumes in Mojave using just an NTFS driver in OpenCore 0.6.3? Or is MacPorts or an old version of Mounty (etc) still the best way? I want to be able to have a sample libraries available to Windows 10, but ExFAT is much too slow with thousands of small sample files. Please advise.

 

[Inqnuam]

Has anyone found a simple way to read/write to NTFS volumes in Mojave using just an NTFS driver in OpenCore 0.6.3? Or is MacPorts or an old version of Mounty (etc) still the best way? I want to be able to have a sample libraries available to Windows 10, but ExFAT is much too slow with thousands of small sample files. Please advise.

with FUSE ?

 

[StefanAM]

Has anyone found a simple way to read/write to NTFS volumes in Mojave using just an NTFS driver in OpenCore 0.6.3? Or is MacPorts or an old version of Mounty (etc) still the best way? I want to be able to have a sample libraries available to Windows 10, but ExFAT is much too slow with thousands of small sample files. Please advise.

Until Big Sur, 100%:

NTFS 3G

FUSE extends macOS by adding support for user space file systems - osxfuse/osxfuse

github.com

 

[CaseySJ]

Has anyone found a simple way to read/write to NTFS volumes in Mojave using just an NTFS driver in OpenCore 0.6.3? Or is MacPorts or an old version of Mounty (etc) still the best way? I want to be able to have a sample libraries available to Windows 10, but ExFAT is much too slow with thousands of small sample files. Please advise.

EFI drivers in OpenCore are only available to the firmware (the pre-boot environment). When the boot loader invokes the macOS kernel, nearly all EFI drivers are removed, which allows the OS to manage system resources using its own drivers. Disconnection of EFI drivers occurs when macOS boot.efi calls “ExitBootServices”.

So we must use an NTFS driver for macOS instead of an EFI driver.

 

[brousseau6933]

with FUSE ?

Isn’t it slower than native NTFS read/write in Windows?

I’m using Paragon NTFS BTW. Not free but worth it for me...

CPDT Benchmark: Storage Performance Database

Benchmark results for SSD/HDD/Flash/NAND memory for various Android, macOS and Windows devices (smartphones, laptops, cloud VMs). Throughput of sequentila and random read/write operations is presented in MB/s in a single searchable chart.

maxim-saplin.github.io

EDIT: well, random read looks similar between FUSE and Paragon but is sample loading sequential or random?

2nd edit: it seems that FUSE is at least worth a try, looks better than NTFS-3G, my bad. Curious if speeds are improved vs ExFat?

 

[Inqnuam]

Isn’t it slower than native NTFS read/write in Windows?

I’m using Paragon NTFS BTW. Not free but worth it for me...

CPDT Benchmark: Storage Performance Database

Benchmark results for SSD/HDD/Flash/NAND memory for various Android, macOS and Windows devices (smartphones, laptops, cloud VMs). Throughput of sequentila and random read/write operations is presented in MB/s in a single searchable chart.

maxim-saplin.github.io

Paragon NTFS is the best one

 

[Feartech]

Be careful not to use paragon on windows to access a mac system drive as i have seen many issues here because of that

 

[brousseau6933]

Be careful not to use paragon on windows to access a mac system drive as i have seen many issues here because of that

Yes, happened to me on my MBP 2011: OSX partition rendered completely unbootable. Paragon NTFS is safe but Paragon HFS, not...

 

[brousseau6933]

Paragon NTFS is the best one

Yes... and I’ve just realized that FUSE is NTFS-3G...

 

[jiffyslot]

Okay. Thanks everyone. To minimize this apparent risk of a brickpocalypse, I'll use a 1TB ExFAT SSD as an intermediary/transfer drive to the 1TB NTFS SSD.

Update: Well that was a treat: APFS to ExFAT to NTFS. It was faster with a Startech SATA to USB adapter than trying to do it over the network. I got all of the sample and SFX libraries safely moved onto a secondary NTFS SSD in Windows, then shut it all down and physically disconnected the NTFS volumes.