Earlier this year I wrote about Accessing Mac Hard Drives from Windows 7/8: Boot Camp Support Software 5.0.5033 and mentioned that there are also a few solutions for writing NTFS volumes from Mac OS X. Thanks to dhardy03, I learned that Seagate now provides NTFS drivers for Mac OS X for.
. Key Features With high performance of the Mac system, NTFS for Mac OS X offers the same transfer rate as the native format of Mac OS. The user can then extract any stored data in his NTFS drive and copy it to another emplacement. Apart from these features, NTFS for Mac OS X gives also the possibility to adjust some settings like the security option. The latter prevents any recovering of the data after deleting them. With this software, the user is able to perform all standard tasks such as formatting the disc, copying and editing documents.
Indeed, the NTFS partition will be automatically mounted and manipulated like native Mac partitions. Pros The driver can handle compression of NTFS files. NTFS for Mac OS X allows a stable exchange of data between Windows and Mac. This is a multilingual software including Chinese, Korean, Russian and other more.
Cons NTFS for Mac OS X does not support Microsoft dynamic volumes. Power PC G4 and G5 are not supported.
Paragon Driver - How to install and uninstall You can use the Seagate drive between both Windows and Mac operating systems. You will need to download a driver to get full functionality out of the drives. The driver you will need is depends on which Seagate drive you purchased originally. If you purchased a ‘For Mac’ drive you will need to install the HFS+ driver on your Windows computer. If your drive purchased the other version of Backup Plus or GoFlex you will need to install the NTFS driver on your Mac computer.